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He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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