take any reasonable amount for it above 2 percent of its face because experienced parties think it will not keep b th a fair degree of accuracy, the form ofphrase, and to some extent its wording, if I could get hold of pencil andpaper soon enough afterward. One Christmas, when he presented Mark Twain with a watch and a match-case, he wrote: MY DEAR CLEMENS,-- F In one letter Clemens set forth his general views of thematter quite clearly: Let us not deceive any one, nor allow any one to deceive himself, if it can be prevented.
s a hundred million tons of A-number-one fourth-proof, hard-boiled, hide-bound grammar from anothermouth could not have done. Then Mark Twain went to work in earnest. Rogers, I was one of your early admirers. Hutton, in Princeton, you said: If a man is a pessimist before he is forty-eight he knows too much.
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