Mark Twain on Patriotism

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http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003176

 

It was March 16, 1901. A lanky man with elegant and flowing white hair and a prominent moustache strode to the podium. He hardly needed an introduction: the audience would immediately have recognized what was arguably the best-known face in America. The event was a meeting of the Male Teachers Association of the City of New York. It was a convivial gathering for dinner at the Albert Hotel in Greenwich Village, at the corner of University Place and Eleventh Street.

 

The first speaker, Charles H. Skinner, the New York Superintendent of Education, had offered up some words on

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I love that man - thanks for the post