Twain quotes

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:41.

All modernAmericanliterature comesfromonebook by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing good since.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  The Green Hills of  Africa, ch.1.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Ballad of East and West'.