Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee Quotes

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Mark Twain, born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, was an American writer and humorist. His most famous work, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, was published in 1889. The novel tells the story of a 19th-century engineer who finds himself transported back to the time of King Arthur. Through satire and wit, Twain explores themes of modernization, technology, and social criticism. Twain's writing style, characterized by his sharp humor and insightful social commentary, has made him one of America's most renowned and celebrated authors.

I urged that kings were dangerous. He said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive, finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house...The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.http://www.twainquotes.com

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee

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