The first Coca-Cola mural ever painted was done on this
wall in Cartersville, GA in 1894.
Signs of the Times
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The Wisdom of Mark Twain
The 20th Century is a stranger to me, I wish it well, but my heart is all for my own
century.  I took 65 years of the 19th Century, just on a risk, but if I had known as
much about it as I know now, I would have taken the whole of it there.
There are those who believe that the unlucky events of life - life's
"experiences" - are in some way useful to us.  I wish I could find out how.  I
never knew the same one of them to happen twice.  They always change off
and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
A hurtful truth has no more merit than a hurtful lie.  Neither should ever be uttered.  The
man who speaks a hurtful truth, lest his soul not be saved if he does otherwise, should
reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
Some people say, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" - which is a manner of
saying, "Scatter your money and your attention."  But the wise man says, "Put all
your eggs in one basket...and WATCH THAT BASKET."
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is
not advice, mind you, it is merely custom.
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On the two destinations in the afterlife:  I am silent on the subject out of
necessity, because I have friends in both places.
It is good to obey all the rules when you're young, so you'll have the
strength to break them when you're old.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
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The unspoken word is capital.  We can invest it or we can squander it.  
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
There is life in only one moment.  The moments that preceded it have been lived
and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and
will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived.
I have no race, color, caste or creed prejudices.  All that I care to know is that a
man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Animals have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they
never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got
one, and they are always ready for an excursion or anything you want to propose.
Men believe they think upon the great political questions, but they think with their
party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side.  
That, it seems to me, is more like accepting than thinking.
When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not
valuable.  In India, "cold weather" is meant merely to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass doorknob and weather which will only make it mushy.
For those that fly, Nature has provided a home that is nobly spacious and has not an
obstruction in it.  For those that swim, Nature has provided a more than imperial domain
which covers four-fifths of the globe.  As for man, Nature has given him the meager skin
which is stretched over the remaining one-fifth.  On the one-half of this domain, he can
raise snow, ice, sand, rocks and nothing else.  Yet man, in his simplicity and
complacency - and inability to cipher - thinks Nature regards him as the important
member of the family - in fact, as the favorite.  Surely, it must occur to even him
sometimes, that, if this is so, Nature has a curious way of showing it.
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing?  It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.  
But it has to be exercised.  No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for
imagination.  It enriches life for him.  It makes things wonderful and beautiful.