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

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SENATORS

There are many Senators whom I hold in a certain respect and would not think of declining to meet socially, if I believed it was the will of God. We have lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary, but I am quite well aware that of those who have escaped this promotion there are several who are in some regards guiltless of crime--not guiltless of all crimes, for that cannot be said of any United States Senator, I think, but guiltless of some kinds of crime.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

Senator: a person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

 

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