Letter from Mark Twain to a snake oil peddler: "You, sir, are the scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link"

boing
2

The angry tweet of its day.

Except Mr. Clemens had such a way with words that it’s a pleasure to read :smiley:

The fact he’s lambasting snake-oil salesman helps also.

2 Likes