I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
April 1, 1857: Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man, a book about a series of cons on a Mississippi steamboat that included caricatures of Emerson, Poe, and Thoreau.
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