April 2011
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Democracy 101:
Mark Twain's farewell address
Lewis H. Lapham is editor emeritus of Harper’s Magazine and the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly.
What a king must suffer! For he knows, deep down in his heart, that he is a poor, cheap, wormy thing like the rest of us, a sarcasm, the Creator’s prime miscarriage in inventions, the moral inferior of all the animals . . . the superior of them all in one gift only, and that one not up to his estimation of it—intellect.
—The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
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| SEE ALSO: Biography; Democracy; Intellect; Twain, Mark; Pictorial works; Views on democracy | |||||||||
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