"We catched fish, and talked, and we..." - Quote by Mark Twain
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.
More by Mark Twain
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“Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!”
More on Nature
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More on Peace
“I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.”
“Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.”
“I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.”