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"Christopher D. Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:40:33 -0400
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To the Twain list,

In Part IV of "Stirring Times in Austria, Twain attributes this
quote-"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad"-to "Saltpeter."

I had thought, though I'm not sure, that the origin of the quote was
Sophocles.  Does anyone have an idea of what this is a reference to or
why Twain might have made it?  Is "Saltpeter" an invented speaker, like
Mr. Brown or Ferguson?

--Christopher Morris

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