If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep…

Mark Twain
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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. ✨ Mark Twain (2013). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p.9, Atlântico Press
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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. ✨ Mark Twain (2013). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p.9, Atlântico Press

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