“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they…”

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

— Mark Twain

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Title: Wikiquote: Mark Twain
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Context

"The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation", described by the author as written about 1867, first published in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old‎ (1875)

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

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