MARK TWAIN ON SPIDERS IN PAPERS
Peace is not always a good thing. Mark Twain, while editing a newspaper in Missouri, received a letter from a subscriber who wrote that he found a spider in his paper. The subscriber wanted to know whether finding the spider was good or bad luck. Twain answered the letter by telling the subscriber that it was neither good luck nor bad. “The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant was not advertising, so that he could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterward!”
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