We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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Answering a toast, "To the Babies," at a banquet in honor of General U.S. Grant (November 14, 1879).
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The Writings of Mark Twain, Vol. 20 (1899), ed. Charles Dudley Warner, p. 397Mark Twain
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