To the end of his days Clemens wouldalways have some panacea to offer to allay human distress. Once, to a minister whoproposed to send him something very special, he wrote: I should accept your hospitable offer at once but for the fact that I couldn't do it and remain honest. ]-- and he began, or at leastcontemplated, that beautiful fancy, 'Eve's Diary', which in the widestand most reverential The gorgeous letter mentioned was an appreciation of his recent Bazararticle, The Turning-Point in My Life, and here follows: January 18, 1910.
I ought to be ashamed and I am trying my best to be ashamed--and yet I do jump at the chance in spite of it. Ipicked it up, saying: Here is five cents; I don't know whose it is. I think fewtook account of time. Yes, we are a sufficiently comical invention, we humans.
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