Kevin, your mention of Milton -- and all discussions of wildly un-Clemens-like Mark Twain quotes -- puts me in mind of Clemens's own fake quotes, written for the dinner menu for a meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in Hartford in June 1881.  Twichell glued it into his journal. It includes this Milton quotation, under "Strawberries with  Cream":

"GIve me my choice between New England breakfast-pie and liver and I should take strawberries and cream every time." -- John Milton

My favorite is allegedly a quotation from "Brer. Talmadge," presumably the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmadge, a prominent evangelistic minister of the era. The dish is "Mayonnaise of Chicken and Lobster Salad":

"I can never look upon a mayonnaise of chicken without the solemn thought that the same Power which enables me to eat and enjoy a mayonnaise of chicken could have enabled the mayonnaise of chicken to eat and enjoy me; and how humbly, and unceasingly and prayerfully grateful we ought all to be that it was changed around to the way it is now." -- Brer. Talmadge




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Subject: Another misattributed Twain quote

People responded to this lunacy with quotes of their own (see the end of =
the article). I especially like ones by John Locke and John Milton, =
although I suspect there=E2=80=99s a slight chance they might also be =
misattributions:

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/anthony-scaramucci-mark-twain-meme/

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