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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Autobiographer
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Florida
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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Dog
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Ascent
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Humiliating

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