I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, a…

Mark Twain
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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.170, Courier Corporation
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