An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Guilty conscience Conscience

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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