Quotes from Mark Twain, 1905

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause & reflect).

Along through the book I have distributed a few anachronisms and unborn historical incidents and such things, as to help the tale over the difficult places. This idea is not original with me; I got it out of Herodotus. Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."