• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

    Mark Twain: We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
    Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press