A Quote by Mark Twain

My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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