"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
- Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door and she was a much better person to emulate.
Not many people know that Twain's favorite book that he wrote was Joan of Arc. He spent 12 years researching it.