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Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to…

Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899).

English (original)

Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to take from him--his brain--have made that tool singularly competent...

— Mark Twain

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