Twain Forum Members,

Please check out Twain's "70th Birthday Speech" for the smoking quotation as well as a number of other bits of advice for how to be 70 years old.

Bill Cosgrove
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On 8/19/12 10:21 AM, "Ellen Komp" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

I've seen the quote "Everything in moderation, including moderation"
attributed to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Horace Porter...did Twain
say it?

I've also seen this one attributed to Twain:

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it
has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to
refrain from smoking when awake.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/moderation.html#IpcwxLOwP3HIC6Zj.99

Ellen Komp
Continually Curious