How Mark Twain Used Today’s Evocative Word – PENITENTIARY – to get ’em evocating!
How Mark Twain Used Today’s Evocative Word – PENITENTIARY – to get ’em evocating!
“There are many Senators whom I hold in a certain respect and would not think of declining to meet socially, if I believed it was the will of God. We have lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary, but I am quite well aware that of those who have escaped this promotion there are several who are in some regards guiltless of crime–not guiltless of all crimes, for that cannot be said of any United States Senator, I think, but guiltless of some kinds of crime.”
Original illustration by Mark Anderson for Conor’s book – What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout public Speakin’
Published in What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin’ by Conor Cunneen
Original SOURCE: Mark Twain Autobiography
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