“ A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. ”
Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography (1906). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | Chapters from My Autobiography |
| Topic | association home |
| Date | 1906 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19987/19987-h/19987-h.htm |
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“[Pg 581] The power to realize their fall import is mercifully wanting. The mind has a dumb sense of vast loss—that is all. It will take mind and memory months, and possibly years, to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And, when he casts about for it, he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential—there was but one of its kind.”
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