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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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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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