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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 974 |
| AUTHOR: | Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
| QUOTATION: | We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2 (vol. 4 of The Writings of Mark Twain), chapter 14, p. 189 (1879, reprinted 1968). |
| SUBJECTS: | Knowledge |
| WORKS: | Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain Collection |
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