I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist
Remark to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, in 1909. He died on April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion.
1909
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