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I am one of the poorest horsemen in the world, and I never mount a
horse without experiencing a sort of dread that I may be setting out
on that last mysterious journey which all of us must take sooner or
later, and I never come back in safety from a horseback trip without
thinking of my latter end for two or three days afterward. |
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| I would have been a Rough Rider myself
if I could have gone to war in an automobile -- but not on a horse! 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. - Mark Twain's Speeches, 10 November 1900 |
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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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If the horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore. 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. |
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