Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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INDELICACY

Delicacy -- a sad, sad false delicacy -- robs literature of the best two things among its belongings. Family-circle narrative and obscene stories.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 19 September 1877

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