“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”
Source: Roughing It
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
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and angels in the clouds”
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— John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath 1834–1913
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation