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  2. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...

  3. What Is Man? (Twain essay) - Wikipedia

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    Twain held views similar to that of the Old Man prior to writing "What is Man?". However, he seems to have varied in his opinions of human freedom. [1] It was published anonymously in 1906 and received such little attention Twain claimed to have regretted its publication. After his death in 1910, the New-York Tribune published a feature on it ...

  4. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    [201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:

  5. Chapters from My Autobiography - Wikipedia

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    However, even though people knew this story, Twain was not famous yet. After Carleton refused to publish Twain's work, the sketches ended up being published by Webb himself. In 1868, Elisha Bliss, from the American Publishing Company of Hartford, asked Twain to publish a book recounting the Quaker City Excursion he just went on. The company did ...

  6. Concerning the Jews - Wikipedia

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    Israeli scholar Bennet Kravitz states that one could just as easily hate Jews for the reasons Twain gives for admiring them. In fact, Twain's essay was cited by Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Kravitz concludes, "The flawed logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate". [5]

  7. Category:Essays by Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Essays by Mark Twain" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Advice to Youth;

  8. Cannibalism in the Cars - Wikipedia

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    An old man on a train tells the story of the aforementioned congressmen, trapped on a train during a snowstorm. It takes a week for the members of Congress to resign themselves to cannibalism for survival, whereupon they hold ineffective elections to select candidates (victims) and follow proper parliamentary procedure. For example: "Mr. Harris ...

  9. To the Person Sitting in Darkness - Wikipedia

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    To the Person Sitting in Darkness" is an essay by American author Mark Twain published in the North American Review in February 1901. It is a satire exposing imperialism as revealed in the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, the Boer War , and the Philippine–American War , expressing Twain's anti-imperialist views.