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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), p. 724
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ab713781e5b9303a0688d49167c4d1dadb2877f5665b48e88c0c2ae1c03f6e90
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