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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Mark Twain
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It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
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More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927, Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Mark Twain, a Biography
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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Mark Twain's Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption
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