(Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed
In a word, he would say, error was error, - no matter where it fell, - whether 
in a ...... they are like those celestial bodies without parallax, which inform us of 
their ......