To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.