"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English
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German: "Alles, was man zum Leben braucht, ist Unwissenheit und Selbstvertrauen, dann ist der Erfolg sicher."

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Letter to Cordelia Welsh Foote (Cincinnati), 2 December 1887. Letter reprinted in Benjamin De Casseres's When Huck Finn Went Highbrow (1934)