Mark Twain1835–1910I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Suppose you were an idiot…and suppose you were a member of Congress…but I repeat myself.
Draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), p. 724- Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 59.
