The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and… — Mark Twain
The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873
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Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 50.
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Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873, ch. 50.
