Monday Morning Quote – Mark Twain on Reading Health Books
With the weather having taken a turn for the worse, it seems like half the office came down with a cold over the weekend. In between hacks and nose-blowings, we decided that a little bit of (perhaps misguided) health advice wouldn’t go amiss for this week’s Monday Morning Quote. So without further ado, today’s quote is by the delightfully snarky American satirist and man of letters, Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Clemens, who is better known by his nom de plume, Mark Twain, is the author of several important works in the American literary canon, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Throughout his life, Clemens worked as a typesetter, a steamboat pilot (woot-woot!), a miner, a travel writer and, of course, a novelist.
Largely self-educated in public libraries, both Clemens’ life and his writing are marked by an incisive wit, which is clearly evident in a number of his famous quotes and public insults. He was also quite the eccentric, having correctly predicted his own death to coincide with the arrival of Halley’s Comet in April of 1910. Interestingly enough, Clemens was born shortly after the arrival of Halley’s Comet 75 years prior. Spooky, eh? But then again, we’ve come to expect nothing less from someone with such an awesome mustache.
And on that note, have a great Monday!
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Seriously, Mark Twain was way cool. Politically speaking, he was way before his time: a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage, anti-slavery from the start, and very actively anti-imperialistic (though that was later on in his life). He chilled with some of the biggest names in his day, and pretty much opened the doors for the vernacular novel in America.
And c’mon, that mustache? Can’t beat it 
This is awesome. What a man.