Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings Family-circle narratives and obscene stories. (Mark Twain)

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings Family-circle narratives and obscene stories.

Mark Twain

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