Friends:

Jim Zwick's helpful page "Misattributed Quotes: What MArk Twain Didn't Say"
(http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/quotes_not_twain.html) lists this as
a misattributed quote, citing Shelley Fisher Fishkin, _Lighting Out for the
Territory_.  So I think we can safely assign this one to the category of
things we wish Twain had said, but did not.

Now I have a question.  In one of the classrooms where I teach there is a
huge--huge, I tell you--poster which reads: "Denial isn't just a river in
Egypt. --Mark Twain"

I am almost sure that Twain never said this, but I want to be absolutely
certain before I take the damn thing down.  Any thoughts?

Larry Cebula
Associate Professor of History
Missouri Southern State College
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