I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest sel…

Mark Twain
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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier. ✨ Mark Twain (2004). The Portable Mark Twain, p.14, Penguin
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