“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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“Tell me how a professor spends his Sabbaths, and I will tell you in what state his soul is spiritually considered.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 524.
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