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To: Daffynition
> **Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.** ~ Mark Twain

good quote. I'll add it to my collection...: )

16 posted on 12/15/2015 4:32:22 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Wait...I found this caveat:

Things MT didn’t really say:

**Censorship is telling a man he can*t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.**

He DID say:**When a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn*t anger me.**

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29372/10-things-mark-twain-didnt-really-say

And this which befuddles:

“I wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huck Finn’ for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.”

~Mark Twain

http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/quote.htm


65 posted on 12/15/2015 9:39:49 AM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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