Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion…”

“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. H…”

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”

“Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission …”