If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails …

Mark Twain
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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash. ✨ Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910, Belknap Press
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