“ No one with a specialty can hope to have a monopoly of it. ”
Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | A Tramp Abroad |
| Topic | monopoly hope |
| Date | 1880 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/119/119-h/119-h.htm |
Context
“but it is a most clingingly exact translation of Dort Oben Wunderbar—fits it like a blister. Mr. Garnham’s reproduction has other merits—a hundred of them—but it is not necessary to point them out. They will be detected.
No one with a specialty can hope to have a monopoly of it. Even Garnham has a rival. Mr. X had a small pamphlet with him which he had bought while on a visit to Munich. It was entitled A Catalogue of Pictures in the Old Pinacotek, and was written in a peculiar kind of English.”
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