Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and…

Mark Twain
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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down. ✨ Mark Twain (2010). Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, p.7, Univ of California Press
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