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It's typical now for half the quotes online. So it's easier to make it "As Mark Twain famously never said, ...".


I suspect that Mark Twain would even greatly appreciate the humor in referring to it that way.


He once said he would, in fact!

;)


Is Mark Twain still alive? I heard they exaggerated his death...


See also, Winston Churchill.

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/

It's especially instructive to call up the list of fakes from that page (it isn't directly linkable due to JS stupidity).




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