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Second Bench
Photographer: James King
Taken: March 10, 2013
Caption: Second Bench
Additional Description: In the beginning of change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain Notebook 1935

This inscription is enigmatic to me in that Mark Twain died in 1910. I have found the quotation dated 1904 elsewhere.
Submitted: June 19, 2013, by James King of San Miguel, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p245112
File Size: 3.384 Megabytes

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