If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together…

Mark Twain
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.221, Courier Corporation
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.221, Courier Corporation

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