Oh, and to really stick my neck out, I think the phrase "billions and billions" became a cliché through Carl Sagan using it in the TV programme "Cosmos" so I suspect (but have zero proof) that this quote is attributed to Sam Clemens but is in fact either made up or misquoted. My theory is that someone either invented it or altered it from an original quote which didn't include that phrase, and that they did so more recently than the original broadcast of "Cosmos" which I think was in the 1980s...
:-) Just a hunch, my dear Watson. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
