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What are you talking about, tree?
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I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Mark Twain Quote
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9 June 2008 - 07:50 PM
ydoaPs 
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the tree said:
As I'm sure you are really aware.Is well known to be attributed to Mark Twain well before, well, you.[Mark Twain quotes]
I've never heard that quote before. He said it better than I did, IMO. I'm sure someone said something similar prior to him. Does that mean he was paraphrasing someone else?
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4 June 2008 - 08:45 PM
ydoaPs
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What are you talking about, tree?
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9 June 2008 - 08:14 PM
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One has to question, though, how mark Twain knew the age of the universe way back when, >100 years ago. The best estimates of the age of the earth and universe were significantly less than a billion years in Twain's/Clemens's time.
Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?
Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?
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10 June 2008 - 02:53 AM
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swansont said:
One has to question, though, how mark Twain knew the age of the universe way back when, >100 years ago. The best estimates of the age of the earth and universe were significantly less than a billion years in Twain's/Clemens's time.
Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?
Or perhaps he was speaking metaphorically?
I think he was merely using a hyperbole, unless of course there is a lot more to Mark Twain than we think...
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