| I got horribly tired of the platform toward
the last -- tired of the slavery of it; tired of having to rest-up for it;
diet myself for it; take everlasting care of my body and my mind for it;
deny myself in a thousand ways in its interest. Why, there isn't
any slavery that is so exacting and so infernal. I hope I have trodden it
for the last time; that bread-and-butter stress will never crowd me onto
it again. - letter to Henry H. Rogers, July 1896 |
 AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen |
 Illustration by F. B. Opper for ""How the Author Was Sold in Newark" from 1899 edition of SKETCHES NEW AND OLD |
I most cordially hate the lecture-field. And, after all, I shudder to
think that I may never get out of it. It is a dismal sort of business, even to a lazy man like me -- it would
kill a nervous thunderbolt like you.
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