My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.


Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852–1890 (1992)


My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.