[Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChapters from My Autobiography CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 15/19
Mr. Clemens is sitting on the bells." There was a cluster of sixteen bell buttons on the corner of the table; my proportions at that end of me were just right to enable me to cover the whole of that nest, and that is how I came to hatch out those sixteen clerks. In accordance with the suggestion made in Gilder's letter recently received I have written the following note to ex-President Cleveland upon his sixty-ninth birthday: HONORED SIR:-- Your patriotic virtues have won for you the homage of half the nation and the enmity of the other half.
This places your character as a citizen upon a summit as high as Washington's.
The verdict is unanimous and unassailable.
The votes of both sides are necessary in cases like these, and the votes of the one side are quite as valuable as are the votes of the other.
Where the votes are all in a man's favor the verdict is against him.
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