"I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there."
— Pauperism

January 1, 1970

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Mark Twain in: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 25 February 2010 , p. 42