I am technically boss of the family which I am carrying along-but I am…

Mark Twain
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I am technically boss of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone. ✨ Mark Twain (2006). Mark Twain Speaking, p.300, University of Iowa Press
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