The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons,…

Mark Twain
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. ✨ Mark Twain (1979). Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869, p.235, Univ of California Press
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. ✨ Mark Twain (1979). Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869, p.235, Univ of California Press

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