Mark Twain Quote

True the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not discomfort; for there are rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities.


Life on the Mississippi - Chapter XXII (p. 189), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1951


True the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not...

True the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not...

True the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not...

True the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not...