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To: Spartan79

Twain never said it. In fact, no one ever said it in precisely that form. Matt Blum at Wired has the fact-check: the quotation actually comes from Clarence Darrow, the lawyer of Scopes Trial fame. Here’s a fuller version of the quote, which appears in Darrow’s 1932 work The Story of My Life:

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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All of the above text came from this website, I merely copied and pasted.


19 posted on 08/18/2014 1:38:10 PM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

http://www.thewire.com/national/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/37279/

Helps if you include the link.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 1:39:20 PM PDT by dmz
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