That resembles Twain's distinction between work and play in Tom Sawyer, Ch. 2: "If he [Tom] had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" (33).  

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Subject: Re: GEICO quotes Twain

Seems very widely attributed. Anyone?


On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Terry Ballard wrote:

> We were driving home on Monday when we heard that lovable lizard on 
> the radio say "Mark Twain said that the secret to success is making 
> your vocation your vacation." We looked at each other - "CLINK." Most 
> Twain misquotes at least sound like him. I dutifully checked it out in 
> Google Books, and found about 3 dozen hits. When limited to books 
> published before 1920, that goes down to zero. Mark Twain never said that.
> 
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> 
> Terry Ballard
> Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems The New 
> York Law School
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> "My memory has a mind of its own."

Fred Harwood
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