ROMANCE
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away
in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self in
private.
- The Gilded Age
Courtship lifts a young fellow far and away above his common earthly self
and by an impulse natural to those lofty regions he puts on his halo and
his heavenly war paint and plays archangel as if he were born to it. He
is working a deception, but is not aware of it.
- "Which Was the Dream"
The romance of life is the only part of it which is overwhelmingly valuable,
and romance dies with youth. After that, life is a drudge, & indeed
a sham.
- Letter to Will Bowen, 6/6/1900
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Glass
lillies for a window in the Clemens home in Hartford, CT
designed by L. C. Tiffany
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