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To: OddLane

Not much of a Twain s scholar:

“Communism is idiotcy,” he reckoned. “They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it — it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. . . . The division would have to be re-made every three years or it would do the communist no good.”

Mark Twain


10 posted on 01/23/2017 8:43:01 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: CrazyIvan

I’ve read quite a lot of Twain over the years, but I can’t remember seeing that quotation. Can you give me a citation that I can verify, or is it just the usual Internet BS that someone made up and attributed to Twain?

Also, Mark Twain would never have spelled “idiocy” with a t, but I’m willing to let that go as a typo.


35 posted on 01/24/2017 3:54:57 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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