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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last…

Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22.

English (original)

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

— Mark Twain

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