The Wit & Wisdom of Mark TwainHarper & Row, 1987 - 265 pagina's This sparkling anthology of Mark Twain's most trenchant remarks has been culled from his books, speeches, letters and conversations recorded by contemporaries. The sayings are as fresh today as when he first wrote them and represent Twain at his wittiest and best. |
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... Mississippi , Twain recalls him . " The Model Boy of my time we never had but the one - was perfect ; perfect in manners , perfect in dress , perfect in conduct , perfect in filial piety , perfect in exterior godliness . . . he was the ...
... Mississippi , Twain recalls him . " The Model Boy of my time we never had but the one - was perfect ; perfect in manners , perfect in dress , perfect in conduct , perfect in filial piety , perfect in exterior godliness . . . he was the ...
Pagina 151
... MISSISSIPPI Mark Twain and some rivermen were sitting around swapping stories about the Mississippi and how high its banks had risen at floodtide . Each man was trying to outdo the others . Jake Anders said he had seen it fifty miles ...
... MISSISSIPPI Mark Twain and some rivermen were sitting around swapping stories about the Mississippi and how high its banks had risen at floodtide . Each man was trying to outdo the others . Jake Anders said he had seen it fifty miles ...
Pagina 202
... Mississippi . " The reason is plain : a pilot , in those days , was the only unfettered and entirely independent ... Mississippi , 1883 , ch . 7 In truth , every man and woman and child has a master , and worries and frets in servitude ...
... Mississippi . " The reason is plain : a pilot , in those days , was the only unfettered and entirely independent ... Mississippi , 1883 , ch . 7 In truth , every man and woman and child has a master , and worries and frets in servitude ...
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