Private thoughts, lies and the truth

As regular readers to this blog or the magazine may have noted, I am often a little fond of quoting Mark Twain in my features, usually attempting to shoe horn some wise remarks from the legendary humorist into the beginnings and endings of features. Normally I use a quote-site  although that doesn’t mean I that I haven’t read either of ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ or ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ In fact, I read both as a child in copies given to my Father as awards in school during the early sixties. One of the best things about quoting Twain is that often he’s more acceptable ...