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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 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 All generalizations are false, including this one. Quote Right
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Quote Left There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Quote Right
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Quote Left But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Quote Right
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Quote Left A badly told lie is almost as bad as telling the truth. Quote Right
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