Mark Twain Quotes
Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
Context
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Topics
Analysis
Ideology, Ideologies
Logic
Oratory
Persuasion
Training
Argument
Convictions
Conditioning
Doctrine, Doctrines
Resilience
Resistance To Change
Rigidity
Stubbornness
Immovable
No Chance
Unchangeable
Unshakable
Education, Knowledge & Training
Arguments
Habit Formation
Unalterable
Unbending
Unbreakable
Unmovable
Unyielding
Wave Analogy
Citations
Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".