| 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" |
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| 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 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 June 1900 |
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lillies for a window in the Clemens home in Hartford, CT |
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