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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Book by Mark Twain · 21 quotes · Men, Ifs, Knows

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“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”