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“We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”

— Mark Twain

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Wikiquote: Mark Twain
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Context

Answering a toast, "To the Babies," at a banquet in honor of General U.S. Grant (November 14, 1879).

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

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