Quote#Wisdom
I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865; revised by the author and reprinted the following month in The Californian.
English (original)
I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
— Mark Twain
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