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Twain Forum Members,

Please check out Twain's "70th Birthday Speech" for the smoking quotation
as well as a number of other bits of advice for how to be 70 years old.

Bill Cosgrove
Professor Emeritus of English
North Dakota State University
6104 Tracy Ave. So.
Edina, MN 55436
952-929-1393
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On 8/19/12 10:21 AM, "Ellen Komp" > wrote: I've seen the quote "Everything
in moderation, including moderation" attributed to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde
and Horace Porter...did Twain say it? I've also seen this one attributed to
Twain: As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself,
it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain
from smoking when awake. Read more at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/moderation.html#IpcwxLOwP3HIC6Zj.99Ellen
Komp Continually Curious

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