The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike…

Mark Twain
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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.135, Courier Corporation
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