Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Source
- Pudd’nhead Wilson, ch. 5 (Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar), 1894
- Written
- 1894
About this quotation
Twain prefaced each chapter of Pudd’nhead Wilson with a maxim from the “calendar” kept by the novel’s title character, and this is the epigraph to chapter 5. The book was serialised in 1893–94 and published in 1894.