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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Florida
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Clemens
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