

“On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years. Since there was so much time to spare that nineteen years of it could be devoted to the construction of a mere towhead, where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days?”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi

“it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. ”
― Life On The Mississippi
― Life On The Mississippi

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi

“You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi

“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi
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