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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
  2. I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
  3. I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
  4. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
  5. Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
  6. All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the 'elect' have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away…
  7. A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
  8. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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  • literature
  • american
  • novel
  • small town life

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