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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Older
Tradition
History
Together
Looks
Even
Legend
Legends
Twice

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