ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, March 31, 1997 TAG: 9703310099
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
Excerpts from the speech Mark Twain gave in Norfolk in 1907:
``Tonnage of a boat means the amount of displacement; displacement means the amount of water a vessel can shove in one day. The tonnage of man is estimated by the amount of whiskey he can displace in one day.''
``There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.''
``I will say that the same high qualities, the same moral and intellectual attainments, the same graciousness of manner, of conduct, of observation and expression have caused Admiral Harrington to be mistaken for me - and I have been mistaken for him.''
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