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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
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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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.
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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
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