The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely go…

Mark Twain
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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. ✨ Mark Twain (1976). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883), p.142, Univ of California Press
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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. ✨ Mark Twain (1976). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883), p.142, Univ of California Press

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