I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die h…

Mark Twain
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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there. ✨ Mark Twain (2010). Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review, p.42, Univ of Wisconsin Press
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