"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Daily Dose
From American Critical Essays XIX -- XX Century, edited by Norman Foerster
MARK TWAIN
"He was not, like some more exquisite men of letters, a democrat in his study and a snob in his drawing room; he was of the people and for the people all the time."
From The Democracy of Mark Twain, by Stuart P. Sherman
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