“Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.”

— Kin Hubbard

Back Country Folks (1914)
As quoted in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations‎ (1949) by Evan Esar, p. 105.
Variant: Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

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