Mark Twain
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself. ✨ Mark Twain's speech to the Savage Club (June 9, 1899), as quoted in Mark Twain's Speeches edited by William Dean Howells (pp. 277-278), 1910.

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