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Mark Twain Quotes: Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
         

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.


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