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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Source: Municipal Corruption, speech, 4 Jan. 190; in Mark Twain's Speeches, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, 1923.
-- 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.

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