Twain....isms
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Bicky Robby
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"Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
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"Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you glad to see me"...."A hard man is good to find". Mae West.
All good ones. (The real Twain ones, anyway.) OK you Mark Twain experts, my memory fails me. What was the story he told involving a tarring & feathering wherein the punchline was something like, "If it weren't for the honor of the thing, I would just as soon walk." I've thought of that quip a hundred times but cannot remember the story or the character.
Edit - so far, Jim wins.
Edit - so far, Jim wins.
"If It Weren't for the Honor of the Thing ...
... I'd rather walk."
Supposedly that's the punchline of joke Abraham Lincoln used to tell about a man who was tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.
... I'd rather walk."
Supposedly that's the punchline of joke Abraham Lincoln used to tell about a man who was tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.
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nicky4968
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I have the complete Mark Twain on my Kindle and a search for 'tar' didn't turn up the quote. I think it was someone else.
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Good to see so many guys appreciate Sam Clemens. I work just a few 100 yards from where he's buried.
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A shame to say it appears the quip is properly attributed to A. Lincoln, but this is no great hardship on Clemens since he came up with far more than his share of good stuff.
Lincoln Studies: Ridden out of Town on a Rail
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