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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
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
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
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