Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
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