If the horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore. |
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My experience of horses is that they never
throw away a chance to go lame, and that in all respects they are well meaning
and unreliable animals. I have also observed that if you refuse a high price
for a favorite horse, he will go and lay down somewhere and die. - "Mark Twain's Interior Notes," San Francisco Bulletin, 6 December 1866 I know the horse too well. I have known the horse in war and in peace,
and there is no place where a horse is comfortable. A horse thinks of
too many things to do which you do not expect. He is apt to bite you in
the leg when you think he is half asleep. The horse has too many caprices,
and he is too much given to initiative. He invents too many new ideas.
No, I don't want anything to do with a horse. |
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The horses seem to be of a very fine breed,
though I am not an expert in horses and do not speak with assurance. I can
always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is
not above the ordinary. - Mark Twain, a Biography |
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