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Quotation from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war;”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 46 (Project Gutenberg #245)

Portrait of Mark Twain

After describing Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Twain charges Walter Scott's romances with fostering the South's love of rank and sham chivalry.

Citation: "It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war;" — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 46 (Project Gutenberg #245). (id life-on-the-mississippi-q8)

Portrait: Life on the Mississippi, Unknown, Public domain.

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