I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.
Mark Twainisn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Mark TwainBy common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
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