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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

— Mark Twain Misattributed

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Often attributed to Twain online, but unsourced. Alternate source: "The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak." — Robert Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1951, p. 188.

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