Grumblings from the original American curmudgeon

I haven’t any right to criticise books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

- Samuel Clemens, in a letter to Joseph Twichell, 13 September 1898

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  1. On 29 January 2010 at 15:52 Helen said:

    That’s what makes horse racing, lol. Where do you come up with these things??

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