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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Mark Twain
1878
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Topic
WindfallsMoneyExpectations
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Irony
Medium
Letter
Time
1878
Person
Mark Twain
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Current citation
Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 Mar. 1878. Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.
Original citation
Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens. 23 Mar. 1878.

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