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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:7804
AUTHOR:Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835–1910)
QUOTATION:  When I’m playful, I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
ATTRIBUTION:Life on the Mississippi.
WORKS:Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain Collection.
 

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