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

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OBSCENITY

Clemens with a frown
Illustration from GRAND FORKS (ND) DAILY HERALD,
February 28, 1909, p. 11.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity--these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.
- "The Lowest Animal"

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