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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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