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HOTELS

It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said, "All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel."
- Notebook, 1898

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him...
- quoted in My Father Mark Twain, Clara Clemens

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