Satan (impatiently) to new-comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, in Following the Equator, 1897
Quote of the day
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
