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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
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