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The approach of Christmas brings harrassment and dread
to many excellent people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and
they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three
weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they
are so dissatisfied with the result, and so disappointed that they want
to sit down and cry. Then they give thanks that Christmas comes but once
a year.
- Following the Equator |
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| It is my heart-warm and world-embracing
Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich,
the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized,
the savage, may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting
rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. - Letter to the Editor, New York Evening World, 23 December 1890 (Related resource: Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner Hubbard, father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell from the Library of Congress site.) |
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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind
Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.
- letter to Carlotte Welles, 30 December 1907 |
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Also see:
Santa Claus and
Mark Twain's Letter from Santa Claus
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