“If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.”

—  Mark Twain, book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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