"Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, "It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.""
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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Incorrectly attributed to Twain, this is actually a quotation from an article in The Pocono Record (18 February 1971, page 4)