An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Mark Twain

1904

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Guilty conscience Conscience

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Personal journal

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1904

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Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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