Mark Twain Quotes
… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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the World War II bombings
The artist, Francis B. Carpenter, visited Lincoln at the White House and saw some of the hateful and threatening letters the president had received. He asked the President how he dealt with them. Today, such mail is filtered by staff and turned over to the Secret Service for possible investigation.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".