Now, What I Contend Is That My Body Is My Own, At Least I Have Always So Regarded It.

Now, What I Contend Is That My Body Is My Own, At Least I Have Always So Regarded It.

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Now, what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always
so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I
who suffer, not the state.
-- Samuel Longhorn Clemmons (a.k.a. Mark Twain)

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
I own my own body, but I share
I own my own body, but I share.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.
It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work...
My sole aim in publishing all my books has always been to do something useful by my industry, and if I can't achieve that, at least to do no harm.
-- Erasmu...
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or no
but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened....