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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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