Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
- Date
- 1894
- Local voice
- Epigraph / fictional source voice · Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar
Meaning of “Training is everything. The peach was once a…”
The exaggerated botany turns education and training into a comic theory of transformation, while still preserving the broader idea that development changes what something can become.
Where does it come from?
Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter V epigraph; the cauliflower comparison appears as a Calendar maxim before the chapter.
Why the local voice matters
Twain presents this wording as a chapter-epigraph Calendar maxim. The Calendar is a fictional framing device / source voice rather than uncomplicated autobiography by Twain.
