Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
“We are responsible for these things in his race. It is not fair to visit our faults upon him, let him alone.”
As quoted in letter to Henry Ward Beecher, by Mark Twain.
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18th President of the United States 1822–1885Related quotes
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
1870s, Second Inaugural Address (1873)
“He makes his cook his merit,
And the world visits his dinners and not him.”
Que de son cuisinier il s'est fait un mérite,
Et que c'est à sa table à qui l'on rend visite.
Act II, sc. iv
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 158–159