“I’ll look in the WSJ, but there’s no telling with Twain quotes. He would have had to live to at least 150 to have written everything that’s attributed to him.”
An a lot of variants of the same quote. He did so much public speaking that they tended to evolve. I am working on a memorial plack to be hung in new animal shelter and am putting his “If you take in a starving dog.......” statement on it. So far I have found at least four versions.
Yeah, it’s tough sorting out the genuine quotes. Still no verifiable reference, so I’m going to put this one in the Internet BS pile. That’s nice about the animal shelter plaque, though.