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

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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

 

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.
- Letter to unidentified person, 11/6/1886

Twain and the world
Original cartoon from CINCINNATI
COMMERCIAL REGISTER,
September 26, 1885

 

page from letter

For more insights on how The Innocents Abroad was written, see:
Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada
and
New York Evening Post, January 20, 1883 - How the 'Innocents Abroad' Was Written


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