Mark Twain Quotes

Heaven Knows Insanity Was Disreputable Enough, Long Ago; But Now That The Lawyers Have Got To Cutting Every Gallows Rope And Picking Every Prison Lock With It, It Is Become A Sneaking Villainy That Ought To Hang And Keep On Hanging Its Sudden Possessors Until Evil-doers Should Conclude That The Safest Plan Was To Never Claim To Have It Until They Came By It Legitimately. The Very Calibre Of The People The Lawyers Most Frequently Try To Save By The Insanity Subterfuge Ought To Laugh The Plea Out Of The Courts, One Would Think.

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