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[–] 113 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Mark Twain

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Actually, it wasn't Twain. It was Clarence Darrow who first said something very like it about 10 years after Twain's death.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago*

    I feel like Mark Twain elbows Darrow in the afterlife every time it gets misattributed to him

    Edit: I feel like it's really important understand when I say this it's the Mark Twain from that tng episode times arrow where they all go in the past and meet Mark Twain and he figures out that they are spacemen

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