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Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Advice to Youth by Mark Twain

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Advice to Little Girls by Mark Twain

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.

Advice to Little Girls by Mark Twain

این‌ها همون باید و نبایدهای جامعه هست که Mark Twain اومده با لحنی طنزگونه ساختارشکنی کرده و در قالب اندرزنامه اونا رو مسخره کرده. مثلا توی کتاب‌های مدرسه‌ی خودمون، یا توی نصیحت‌هایی که شنیدیم هم زیاد بوده که دختر خوب باید این‌جوری باشه و پسر خوب باید اون‌جوری باشه، کوچیک‌ترها تحت هر شرایطی باید به بزرگ‌ترها احترام بذارن و کلی نصیحت دیگه که معلوم نیست منطق پشتش چی هست و اصلا حتی منطقی هم نداره. Mark Twain هم یه چیزی تو مایه‌های اندرزنامه داره هم به پسرا هم دخترا هم افراد جوون که می‌تونید بقیه‌ش رو خودتون سرچ کنید و بخونید من فقط سه‌تا از نصیحت‌هاش رو آوردم.