for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. ✨ M…

Mark Twain
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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. ✨ Mark Twain (2014). Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition), p.764, Jazzybee Verlag
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