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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
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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