I feel for Adam and Eve now, for I know
how it was with them....The Garden of Eden I now know was an unendurable
solitude. I know that the advent of the serpent was a welcome change--anything
for society. -Mark Twain, a Biography |
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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go
to -- both have their advantages, "heaven for climate, hell for company!"
- Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. 3 (Notebook 29) ...heaven for climate; hell for society. - Mark Twain's Speeches (1910) "Tammany and Croker speech," 1901 We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903 |
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is
auburn. |
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