“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. "A Mysterious Visit", Buffalo Express , 19 March 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old”
Mark Twain
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“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city. "A Curious Dream", in Mark Twain’s Sketches, Selected and Revised by the Author (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872) p. 308”
“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience”
“The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation”
“The Treaty With China”
“Cited by: William E. Phipps, Mark Twain's Religion , Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 18 Richard Locke, Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels , Columbia University Press, p. 12”
“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
“Answers to Correspondents”