According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
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“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
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Polish writer and photographer 1966
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