There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.


p. 98. - Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924)

Mark Twain Quotes

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation....

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation....

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation....

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation....