"How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed the publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good." — Mark Twain, speaking at a dinner honoring the 70th birthday of longtime Harper’s Monthly editor Henry Mills Alden, November 10, 1906.
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November 10, 2010
Mark Twain on magazine editors
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