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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 30 August 2013
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9780486489230
  • Stock: 17 in stock
  • Size: 140x140 mm
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: £12.49
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

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by Mark Twain

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"Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.
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About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

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