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Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Mark Twain is humorously saying that he has so much thinking going on that it takes him a long time to reach a decision. He implies that his intelligence involves deep or slow contemplation rather than quick answers.

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