Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on i…

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ✨ Mark Twain, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays, p.922, GENERAL PRESS
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ✨ Mark Twain, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays, p.922, GENERAL PRESS

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