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Reply to Water and Wine
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Wed, 13 Dec 1995 07:22:59 -0500
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The water/wine quote appears in a letter SLC wrote to W. D. Howells on
2/15/1887 :

"...high and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody
likes water."

Some sources also give an earlier quote which appeared in Twain's notebook
of 1885:
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine.  But
everyone drinks water."

Barb

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