Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."
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Ornery
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Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me."
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