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Quotation from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245)

Portrait of Mark Twain

Having mastered the language of the water, Twain mourns what the knowledge cost him, before describing a sunset as he once saw it and as a pilot would read it.

Citation: "All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!" — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245). (id life-on-the-mississippi-q4)

Portrait: Life on the Mississippi, Unknown, Public domain.

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