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| "You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies?" | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |  |
| It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| . . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . . | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| "You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous . . . " | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . . | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
