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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)
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. California Youth's Companion (June 24, 1865). "Advice for Good Little Girls," p. 164, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992).
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