"Hicks
was born honest; I, without that incumbrance -- so some people said.
Hicks saw what he saw, and reported accordingly; I saw more than was
visible, and added to it such details as could help. Hicks had no
imagination, I had a double supply. He was born calm, I was born
excited. No vision could start a rapture in him, and he was constipated
as to language, anyway; but if I saw a vision I emptied the dictionary
onto it and lost the remnant of my mind into the bargain. " - Mark
Twain, Autobiography.