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再美国国旗下的某个地方还有一个摇篮，里面躺着美军未来的声名显赫的总司令，他此刻并不在为将来的威严和责任犯愁，而是开动他的全部战略头脑，想方设法的把大脚趾伸进嘴里——这并非对今晚显赫的贵宾有何不敬，而是说，56年前他也曾把注意力放在这件大事上！
如果说从小看到大，三岁看到老，那么，只有极少数人才会怀疑他取得了成功。
Title: Speech On The Babies
Author: Mark Twain [More Titles by Twain]
AT THE BANQUET, IN CHICAGO, GIVEN BY THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE TO THEIR FIRST COMMANDER, GENERAL U. S. GRANT, NOVEMBER, 1879
The fifteenth regular toast was "The Babies--as they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities."
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I like that. We have not all had the good fortune to be Ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. It is a shame that for a thousand years the world's banquets have utterly ignored the baby, as if he didn't amount to anything. If you will stop and think a minute --if you will go back fifty or one hundred years to your early married life and recontemplate your first baby--you will remember that he amounted to a great deal, and even something over. You soldiers all know that when the little fellow arrived at family headquarters you had to hand in your resignation. He took entire command. You became his lackey, his mere body servant, and you had to stand around, too. He was not a commander who made allowances for time, distance, weather, or anything else. You had to execute his order whether it was possible or not. And there was only one form of marching in his manual of tactics, and that was the double-quick. He treated you with every sort of insolence and disrespect, and the bravest of you didn't dare to say a word. You could face the death-storm at Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow; but when he claw