The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. ✨ Mark Twain (…

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. ✨ Mark Twain (1972). Everyone's Mark Twain
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All generalizations are false, including this one. ✨ Attributed in A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.
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