Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would p…

Mark Twain
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. ✨ Mark Twain (1875). Old Times on the Mississippi, p.2, Library of Alexandria
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. ✨ Mark Twain (1875). Old Times on the Mississippi, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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