NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong
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I was expecting the attribution to be to Mark Twain. I wonder if their style seems similar on account of being old, or if there's more to it.
Tentatively: rhetoric was studied formally, and Twain and Smith might have been working from similar models.