In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between…

Mark Twain
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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections, p.6, 谷月社
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