"A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur."
-- Mark Twain
Tomorrow, April 21, we celebrate the centennial of Samuel Clemens' death. Our greatest humorist died at his home in Redding, Connecticut.
He was watched constantly by the press and at one point earlier in his life had to deny that he had died. He wrote his
statement.
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