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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
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