Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
by Mark Twain 
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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend Mark Twain... On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest. On truth and lies: many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, show more and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there. On health and fitness: Part of the secret success in life is to eat what you like and let the food it out inside. show lessTags
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This book I bought when I was down in Mississippi, appropriately enough. It's tiny, pocket sized in fact, and short... The book is poorly set up as far as organizing the quotes goes, but it's printed well and.. well, you can't really beat [a:Mark Twain|1244|Mark Twain|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1322103868p2/1244.jpg] for pithy sayings. Many had me laughing out loud, and the biography of [a:Mark Twain|1244|Mark Twain|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1322103868p2/1244.jpg] at the back was surprisingly in depth.
For memories, [a:Mark Twain|1244|Mark Twain|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1322103868p2/1244.jpg], and fantastic quotes? This book is great. For actual purchase and what not? Don't bother show more unless you're down South and have just heard an awesome recitation of one of the fellow's stories.
Bonus points if you're actually travelling down the river itself by steam boat or anything similar. show less
For memories, [a:Mark Twain|1244|Mark Twain|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1322103868p2/1244.jpg], and fantastic quotes? This book is great. For actual purchase and what not? Don't bother show more unless you're down South and have just heard an awesome recitation of one of the fellow's stories.
Bonus points if you're actually travelling down the river itself by steam boat or anything similar. show less
Good bathroom book of the very notable, quotable, and redoubtable Mark Twain
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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a show more career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Mark Twain has a Legacy Library. Legacy libraries are the personal libraries of famous readers, entered by LibraryThing members from the Legacy Libraries group.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 818.402 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
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- PS1303 .H565 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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