Mark Twain Quote of the Month
Hand-picked from Mark Twain's letters:
"Sanford Greeves was at Mrs Brooks's last nighta good,
well-behaved, gentle-natured, fair & honorable young man, of little
force and very harmless. It is well his good angel saved him from
matrimony. Figuratively speaking, Emma would have made him climb a
tree in less than six months. How she would have lorded it over
him! Why they were utterly unfitted for each other, & I cannot see
what ever bred their love. He is so meek, and she sososo
otherwise as you might say. They got ready for mating, several
centuries too soon, as nearly as I can make it out, after ciphering
all through the Book of Revelations. Now, if they could only
have been patient, & waited for the Millennium,when "the lion &
the lamb shall lie down together" It would have been all right,
thenbut not in the nineteenth century."
Samuel L. Clemens, a.k.a. Mark
Twain (18351910) 1869; A 33 year-old Clemens, writing to future
Mother-in-Law Olivia Lewis Langdon, has a bit of fun at the expense of
a not-very-suitably matched couple. The woman, Emma Sayles, was a
friend of Twain's future wife Olivia 'Livy' Langdon. Alas, Emma and
poor, meek Sanford had recently canceled their matrimonial plans. Love
that reference to Y2K, by the way, when surely "the lion & the lamb
shall lie down together."
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