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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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HALLEY'S COMET

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.


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It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
- Mark Twain, a Biography


The visibility of Halley's Comet at the birth and death of Mark Twain is "an exaggeration."
See Louis J. Budd's essay "Overbooking Halley's Comet."



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