Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually

Mark Twain
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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it. ✨ Mark Twain (2014). Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition), p.539, Jazzybee Verlag
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