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Quotation of the Day for December 29, 2003
"Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leatherstocking series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series."
- Mark Twain, on James Fenimore Cooper.
Submitted by: Jeannette Cezanne
Dec. 1, 2003