A man may have no bad habits and have worse ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-…

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, p.83, St. Martin's Press
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