Thanks, Barb! I figured as much. I don't like the misattribution, but I am
livid at the rebuttal of attribution. What an enlightened age we live in
where we must fight crazy with crazy, and justify it as sanity.

You really want to quote Twain on politics, how about this?

"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad
government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals."

Great stuff, twainquotes...

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:20 AM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
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> AB E -- the quote isn't found on twainquotes.com and best I can tell, did
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> not originate with Mark Twain.  It has taken on a life of its own with
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> attribution to Mark Twain.  However, searching google for the quote with
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> attribution to someone else besides Twain using these search terms:
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> "poor fight back" + violence -twain
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> yields over 84,000 results.  The true source of that quote might be buried
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> there somewhere.
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> It appears to be another case of "if it sounds good, Mark Twain must have
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> said it."
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> Barb
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