On a visit to Annapolis, Maryland, in May 1907, Mark Twain was the guest of the state's governor, Edwin Warfield, whose large, florid face with white goatee made him look like a Kentucky colonel long before Harland Sanders laid claim to that image.
Twain liked Gov. Warfield, especially after the politician called him "one of the greatest men in the world" during one of the author's public appearances in Annapolis.
"Who am I to contradict the Governor of Maryland?" Twain asked, doing his best to seem modest. "Worm that I am, by what right should I traverse the declared opinion of that man of wisdom and judgment?"
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