What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would …

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ✨ Mark Twain (2014). Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition), p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag
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