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id: 19484
title: Editorial Wild Oats
author: Twain, Mark
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  and on a lucky summer''s day he left town to be gone a week, and The paper came out, and I never knew any little thing attract so "That stove is utterly ruined," said the chief editor. The chief said: "That was the Colonel, likely. "I am the boss," said the editor, following this curious bit of "Don''t want anybody fur to learn the business, ''tain''t likely?" "Do you think you would like to learn the printing business?" already gone to press, but knowing that our friend would consider The regular editor of the paper was going off for a with his handkerchief, he said, "Are you the new editor?" I first read it this morning, I said to myself, I never, never I said I could make your paper of interest to read the paper instantly.[1] However, Cæsar shook him off, and Cæsar saw his old friend Brutus step forward armed with a


id: 2431
title: Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
author: Twain, Mark
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  couldn''t have written Shakespeare''s works, for the reason that the man happened to Shakespeare_, so far as anybody knows. literary folk of Shakespeare''s time passed from life! So far as any one _knows and can prove_, Shakespeare of Stratford wrote Stratford from the time he was seven years old till he was thirteen. important fact, of Shakespeare''s life in Stratford. the only play--ain''t it?--that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and The next addition to the young Shakespeare''s Stratford history comes recollections of Shakespeare-Bacon talk abide with me--his law-equipment. times in Shakespeare''s thirty-four plays, and only in one single instance Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in quite convinces me that the man who wrote Shakespeare''s Works knew all Since the Stratford Shakespeare couldn''t have written the Works, we infer history: a thing which cannot be done for the Stratford Shakespeare, for


id: 2572
title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
author: Twain, Mark
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  time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man''s best and surest lie is often as ineffectual as the truth. with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to. voice, saying, "We made sixteen calls and found fourteen of them out" I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the matter and said, "I have made a rule of my life to never tell a lie; and hospital people sent to you by the hand of the sick-nurse when she came fault to find in that matter." She said, "Oh, was that a lie? been cruel." I said, "One ought always to lie, when one can do good by She could have said, "In one respect this sick-nurse is perfection--when


id: 1892
title: Extracts from Adam''s Diary, translated from the original ms.
author: Twain, Mark
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  This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls--why, Says it looks like Niagara Falls. same pretext is offered--it looks like the thing. The new creature says it is all woods and new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree. The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have I escaped last Tuesday night, and travelled two days, and built she has tamed and calls a wolf, and came making that pitiful noise among others, trying to study out why the animals called lions and Tonawanda--says it looks like that. thing, she says it is ordered that we work for our living hereafter. that it is a different and new kind of animal--a fish, perhaps, tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear.


id: 1213
title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
author: Twain, Mark
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  for no stranger would trust such a thing to any town but Hadleyburg, and "Mary, maybe the stranger knows him better than this village does." "Mary, Burgess is not a bad man." and guessed that the late Goodson was the only man in the town who could Time-table for Brixton and all the towns beyond changed today, sir--had to get the papers in twenty minutes earlier than common. "But, Mary, you know how we have been trained all our lives long, like money-sack, and wondering if the right man would be found, and hoping make dashing free-hand pictures of the sack, and of Richards''s house, and Meantime Mary had spent six thousand dollars on a new house for herself "What I was going to say is this: We know your good heart, Mr. Richards, man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward Richards." "Very good." Then the stranger got up and said to the house:


id: 7556
title: Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain
author: Twain, Mark
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  The man with a new idea is a Crank Wasn''t worth a cent two years ago, and If the man doesn''t believe as we do, we say he is a crank Natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds Tourists showing how things ought to be managed I had a delicacy about going home and getting thrashed Room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat We all like to see people seasick when we are not, ourselves List of things which we had seen and some other people had not Money is most difficult to get when people need it most Very pleasant man if you were not in his way Women always want to know what is going on Dead people who go through the motions of life


id: 32325
title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer''s Comrade)
author: Twain, Mark
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  Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on the dollar I got from the judge.) I said it was pretty bad money, but that had just come, and he didn''t know the old man; so he said courts When he got out the new judge said he was a-going to make a man of coming all the time; but I got her hid; and then I out and looked went to bed; there ain''t no better way to put in time when you are had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and "No," says the old man, "I reckon there ain''t going to be any; and you "Why, Tom Sawyer, how you talk," I says; "Jim ain''t got no use for a


