Mark Twain Quotes about Community

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Community, Lazy, Sleepy

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4194, Delphi Classics

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

Mark Twain

Media, Talking, Community

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”