I could have become a soldier if I had waited. [...] I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.
The National Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 45 (Bostonian Publishing Company, 1917), p. 541 , "Boyhood haunts of Mark Twain"
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