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What are you talking about, tree?
As I'm sure you are really aware.
I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Is well known to be attributed to Mark Twain well before, well, you.[Mark Twain quotes]
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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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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?

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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?

 

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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