Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: stra… - Mark Twain

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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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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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