Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Mark Twain

1889

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1889

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 20. Originally from Notebook, c. 1889.

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