| He talks forever and ever and ever untiringly,
of the attentions which have been shown him. Sometimes they have
been large attentions, most frequently they are very small ones; but no
matter, no attention comes amiss to him and he likes to revel in them. His
friends are coming to observe, with consternation, that while he adds new
attentions to his list every now and then, he never drops an old and shop-worn
one out of the catalogue to make room for one of these fresh ones. He keeps
the whole list, keeps it complete, and you must take it all, along with
the new additions, if there is time and you survive. - Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1907. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (University of California Press, 2015)
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