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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
Monarchies, aristocracies, and...
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.
Source: Satan, in The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 9, 1916; repr. in The Complete Short Stories, ed. Charles Neider, 1957.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.