A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it…

Mark Twain
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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.473, Courier Corporation
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