| For years my pet aversion had been the
cuckoo clock...Some sounds are hatefuller than others, but no sound is quite
so inane, and silly, and aggravating as the "hoo'hoo" of a cuckoo
clock, I think. I bought one, and am carrying it home to a certain person;
for I have always said that if the opportunity ever happened, I would do
that man an ill turn. - A Tramp Abroad |
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| I have damaged my intellect trying to
imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another
man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these
riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented--which
is another riddle which tires me. - Letter to Henry H. Rogers, 9/24/1894
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