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Quotation by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain (352)Additional Sources
"A Cat Tale" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)Adam, in "Wednesday" Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)"Advice for Good Little Girls" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)"Advice to Youth" Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890, Library of America (1992)Related Subjects
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Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout—he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch. 20 (1876).
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