Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. ✨ Mark Twa…

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. ✨ Mark Twain (1992). Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890, p.388, Library of America
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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. ✨ Mark Twain (1992). Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890, p.388, Library of America

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