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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
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