Friends: Jim Zwick's helpful page "Misattributed Quotes: What MArk Twain Didn't Say" (http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/quotes_not_twain.html) lists this as a misattributed quote, citing Shelley Fisher Fishkin, _Lighting Out for the Territory_. So I think we can safely assign this one to the category of things we wish Twain had said, but did not. Now I have a question. In one of the classrooms where I teach there is a huge--huge, I tell you--poster which reads: "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. --Mark Twain" I am almost sure that Twain never said this, but I want to be absolutely certain before I take the damn thing down. Any thoughts? Larry Cebula Associate Professor of History Missouri Southern State College [log in to unmask]