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A thing long expected takes the shape of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Source:
Chapter XXI. European Residence, Mark Twain's Notebook (1935, posthumous)
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Mark Twain
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Writer
Born:
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
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