“You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.”
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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“The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.”
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Letter to Charles Bainton, 15 October 1883
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