"To be the first -- that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment."
-Mark Twain, "Innocents Abroad "
Lovely photo and inspirational thought. Happy birthday Mr. Clemens!
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