“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain

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About Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a celebrated American writer, humorist, and lecturer. He gained worldwide fame for his novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and its sequel, 'Adventures of...

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