Mark Twain quote about knowledge from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
 Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Topic knowledge prejudice
Date 1884
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm

Context

“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.” source

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