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Mark Twain is the famous pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He is one of the most beloved figures in the history of American literature, and was a journalist, novelist, humorist, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel ."


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Quote Left We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead—and not then until we have been dead years and years. Pe... Quote Right
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Quote Left After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by... Quote Right
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Quote Left It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand Quote Right
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Quote Left He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Quote Right
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Quote Left It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Quote Right
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