Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and th… - Mark Twain

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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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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Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Alternative Names: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass Samuel L. Clemens Samuel Clemens Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
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