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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
When the doctrine...
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it?
Source: Consistency, paper, read at Hartford, Connecticut in 1884; published 1923; repr. in Complete Essays, ed. Charles Neider, 1963.
-- 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.