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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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BANQUET

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

AI image created by Barbara Schmidt

Twain speaking
Original graphic from New York WORLD,
December 13, 1897

 


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