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"A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud. "I have a better idea, suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?"
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