MARK TWAIN

bling the spoils etc. are like the wolf who looked in at
the door and saw the shepherds eating mutton, and said:
"Oh, certainly—it's all right as long as it's you—but
there'd be hell to pay if I was to do that."

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken
out an international copyright on it. For international
copyright could have won, then. But when there came
to be two men, it was too late, because there was one to
oppose it, and experience shows that that fellow would
have had the most influence.

The old man said: "When I think of the suffering which
I see around me, and how it wrings my heart; and then
remember what a drop in the ocean this is, compared
with the measureless Atlantics of misery which God has
to see every day, my resentment is roused against those
thoughtless people who are so glib to glorify God, yet
never have a word of pity for him."

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