"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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"The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation", described by the author as written about 1867, first published in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old‎ (1875)