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To: Jimmy Valentine
Ahem, "There is no feeling so satisfactory as to be shot at without result."

Sorry, fat fingered the keyboard

12 posted on 11/15/2012 12:44:48 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
"There is no feeling so satisfactory as to be shot at without result."

I had the impression that the line was from his account of his experiences in Cuba. Am I wrong, or was he using it as a "signature" line in this work as well? Did he use it in both? It clearly was used in "Story of the Malakand Field Force".

14 posted on 11/15/2012 1:20:50 PM PST by marktwain
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