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Mark Twain Quotes: Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
         

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.


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