TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sender:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:55:21 -0500
Reply-To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:
MIME-Version:
1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization:
English Department, The Citadel
From:
"James S. Leonard" <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (19 lines)
I've received the following inquiry:


> Sorry to bother you.  I recently received an e-mail with the following
> quote, attributed to Mark Twain:
>
> "War is good for the economy like cannibalism is nutritious."
>
> I've searched my Bartlett's and tried google but can find no mention of
it,
> so I thought I'd ask you.  Any ideas?
>

In response to this, I checked "Twain's World," but found nothing
there.  Has anyone ever heard of this--attributed either to Twain or to
someone else?

Jim Leonard

ATOM RSS1 RSS2