“Knowledge makes a man unfit to become a slave”

~Frederick Douglass

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“From my window here at Lake Como Italy, I have a view of the other side of the lake now, which is as beautiful as a picture. A scarred and wrinkled precipice rises to a height of eighteen hundred feet; on a tiny bench half way up its vast wall, sits a little snow-flake of a church, no bigger than a martin-box, apparently; skirting the base of the cliff are a hundred orange groves and gardens, necked with glimpses of the white dwellings that are buried in them; in front, three or four gondolas lie idle upon the water and in the burnished mirror of the hike, mountain, chapel, houses, groves and boats are counterfeited so brightly and so clearly that one scarce knows where the reality leaves off and the reflection begins!”

~ Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad 1869

Twain wrote the best travel guides.

I used to think we were on deck, but perhaps we’re in the hole. I know who’s batting clean-up though. #bitcoin

#einundzwanzig

https://youtu.be/9s-qWFhwM9o?si=VVD6kivtJzlIg-wD

True or False. @Michael Saylor has studied Sir Francis Bacon?

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

~ Mark Twain (A Tramp Abroad)

#heidelberg

“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English in 30 hours. French in 30 days, and German in 30 years.”

~Mark Twain

Hiking with old Samuel Clemons was a delight.