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Quote by Mark Twain
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. – Mark Twain

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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