Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage f…

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows ✨ Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man, p.103, Univ of California Press
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