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By Mark Twain
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Source
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, 1894 · Chapter V epigraph, p. 67
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- Internet Archive (New York Public Library scan of the 1894 first edition, Hartford: American Publishing Co.)
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From Mark Twain's novel The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894), where each chapter opens with a saying from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," a notebook kept by a character Twain wrote. The sayings are Twain's own writing.