Mark Twain was an amazing writer and observer of the human condition. He made himself a household name even more than a century after his death.

I've been reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and one passage particularly grabbed my attention.

"The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as horses or cats or angleworms would probably have done–turn back and get at something profitable–no, anxious as they had before been to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as 40 times as anxious now to see the place where it used to be. There is no accounting for human beings."

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