The literary and artistic instinct which attained its fruition in him had percolated through the veins of a long line of silent singers, of poets and painters, unborn to the world of expression till he arrived upon the scene.
Watterson reflects on the literary heritage that contributed to Mark Twain's artistic talents.
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From the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the threshold of the White House to the hour he went thence to his death, there was not a moment when he did not dominate the political and military situation and his official subordinates.
The great man listened and replied: “I have noticed you scattering your means round here pretty freely but you haven’t said ‘turkey’ to me.
The world—the whole trend of modern thought—was set against slavery.
Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
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