That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. - Mark Twain

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Pen Names: Sieur Louis de Conte • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass • J. W. Bothwell
Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Alternative Names: Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Louis de Conte
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Morals are an acquirement—like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them.
Seventieth Birthday · 1905 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance
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