“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

— 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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