Mark Twain (c. 1835-1910)
“[T]hat is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.”
- From chapter 11 of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court (Published in 1889). The edition used here is by Bantam/Random House (1981, 2005).
As ever, very nice. Too bad that he will be thrown out of our libraries (with the High Moral Excuse) that it contains the word N—-r. The horror of our present American forthcoming ignorance will make Savonarola seem like Little Miss Muffett