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Tuesday, February 7

Mark Twain on Habits

"You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you."
- 70th birthday speech, 1905

And here's proof of that- Mark Twain's bedside table in Hartford, CT...



Anyone else would have likely blown themselves up.

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