Other People’s Habits — Mark Twain Quote Journal

Item one on the New Year’s list is about you. Items two through nine are about everyone else.

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
— Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Ch. XV, 1894. We check every line against a primary source.

Twain had more to say on the subject: “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.”

The pointing hand beside the line is an old reader’s mark, drawn in margins to flag a passage worth coming back to.

Write down yours, starting with the one about you.

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