11/16/2021
"Heroine: girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it.
Hero: person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Image: The Mark Twain House & Museum
