He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A c…

Mark Twain
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He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, p.169, Univ of California Press
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