Mark Twain quote about example from Pudd'nhead Wilson - Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
 Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source Pudd'nhead Wilson
Topic example annoyance
Date 1894
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/102/102-h/102-h.htm

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“245 As Tom trudged home his mind was full of dreary thoughts and wild plans; but at last he said to himself, wearily— «There is but the one way out. I must follow her plan. But with a variation—I will not ask for the money and ruin myself; I will rob the old skinflint.»
246 CHAPTER XIX. The Prophecy Realized. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.
Dawson's Landing was comfortably finishing its season of dull repose and waiting patiently for the duel.” source

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