You Can Almost Believe Mr. Clemens Wrote About This In 2017

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Injun Joe was believed
to have killed five citizens
of the village,
but what of it?

If he had been Satan himself
there would have been plenty
of weaklings ready to scribble 
their names to a pardon petition,
and drip a tear on it
from their permanently impaired
and leaky waterworks.

MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876)

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