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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
What is the...
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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
Source: Consistency, paper, read at Hartford, Connecticut in 1884; published 1923; repr. in Complete Essays, ed. Charles Neider, 1963.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.