| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 275 |
| AUTHOR: | Mark Twain (18351910) |
| QUOTATION: | It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens), Following the Equator, vol. 1 (vol. 5 of The Writings of Mark Twain), chapter 8, epigraph, p. 98 (1897, reprinted 1968). |
| SUBJECTS: | Congress |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain Collection | | |
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