Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put t…

Mark Twain
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.122, Courier Corporation
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