• There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

    Mark Twain: There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
    Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)