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Quotes from Roughing It — Mark Twain

1835–1910 United States

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Roughing It (1872)

No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

Roughing It (1872)

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