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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Novelist
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Clemens
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