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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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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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