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Illustration by Peter Newell from COSMOPOLITAN August 1893

With us no individual is born with a right to look down upon his neighbor and hold him in contempt. - "After Dinner Speech," published in Sketches New and Old

Man has not a single right which is the product of anything but might. Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights. - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Postcard from the Dave Thomson collection

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