“I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercised regularly.”

— Mark Twain

Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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