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Let your joy be unconfined!

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
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Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Clemens
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