Thursday's Quote of the Day
09:47 UK time, Thursday, 22 April 2010
"She was as healthy as iron, she had the appetite of a crocodile, the stomach of a cellar, & the digestion of a quartz-mill" - Mark Twain on his household nurse called "No 5"
To mark the 100th anniversary of the writer's death, an until-now unpublished document of his, A Family Sketch, has been released. While much of it is devoted to the death of Twain's daughter, at 24, it includes reflections on other parts of family life. In his description of No 5's voracious appetite, he says she ate everything in sight, and washed it down with "freshnets of coffee, tea, brandy, whiskey, turpentine, kerosene - anything that was liquid".
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