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Quotation by Mark Twain
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"A Cat Tale" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)Adam, in "Wednesday" Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)"Advice for Good Little Girls" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)"Advice to Youth" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)
I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. 1881. "A Cat Tale," p. 769, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992).
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