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Money Quote by Mark Twain

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.”

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