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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

"But, ma, I think it must be a foreign custom; and it must be right too, and the best way, because they have had every opportunity to know what is right, and it don't stand to reason that with their education they would do anything but what the highest musical authorities have sanctioned. You can't help but admit that, ma."

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

sights and strange customs, accumulating an education of a wide and varied and curious sort. It was a pleasant life. We went to Venice—to London, Paris, Russia, India, China, Japan—"