| To ask a doctor or builder or sculptor for his
autograph would be in no way rude. To ask one of those for a specimen of
his work, however, is quite another thing, and the request might be justifiably
refused. It would never be fair to ask a doctor for one of his corpses to
remember him by. - quoted in "Mark Twain on Autographs," Chicago Daily Tribune, March 24, 1902, p. 12. |
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It is wonderful how that little "per" does take the stuffing out
of an autograph.
- Letter to W. D. Howells, October 27, 1879
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