Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
- Date
- 1894
- Local voice
- Epigraph / fictional source voice · Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar
Meaning of “The holy passion of Friendship is of so…”
The sentence builds friendship into something almost sacred and then punctures the ideal with a borrowing joke, satirizing how financial pressure tests supposedly unconditional loyalty.
Where does it come from?
Pudd’nhead Wilson, Calendar epigraph before the section following Chapter VII; the lending-money qualification supplies the punch line.
Why the local voice matters
Twain presents this wording as a chapter-epigraph Calendar maxim. The Calendar is a fictional framing device / source voice rather than uncomplicated autobiography by Twain.
