Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
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“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”
As quoted in Four Talks for Bibliophiles (1958) by George Allen, p. 70
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