I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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• I have two rules about smoking. The first is that I never smoke while I'm sleeping.
  The second is that I never smoke more than one cigar...
• I didn't attend the funeral,
  but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."...
• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
  Mark...
• I didn't attend the funeral,
  but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."...
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at...
• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was.
  By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how...
• Time to go home and write mom a nice long
  letter...
• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge,
  because I have got so much more of it. -- Mark Twain...
• I have been complimented many times and that embarrasses me;
  I always feel they have not said enough. MARK...