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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. — Mark Twain

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain
1904
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1904
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Mark Twain
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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 33. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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