Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with …

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). The travels of Mark Twain
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