Mark Twain Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
Birthday: November 30
Death: April 21
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
source: Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.35, University of Missouri Press
topic: Rivers, Water, Grace, Trifling, Letters Of The Alphabet
