Mark Twain Quote

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.


Mississippi Writings (ed. Library of America, 1876) - ISBN: 9780940450073


There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case...

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case...

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case...

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case...