There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.


The Writings of Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Those extraordinary twins (ed. 1899)


There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.