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"


I could have become a soldier if I had waited. [...] I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited. [...] I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited. [...] I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited. [...] I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.