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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

— Mark Twain

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Mark Twain
Type
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Context

Draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), p. 724

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Twain, Mark. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mark Twain. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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