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id: 2986
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
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  We had a noble good time in the yacht, Clemens wrote Twichell on their return. Such things in great men are noticeable.


id: 2985
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
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sentence: 3920
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  Brander Matthews remembers that Clemens was obliged frequently to go to New York on business connected with the machine and the publishing, and that during one of these absences a professional entertainer came along, and in the course of his program told a Mark Twain story, at which Mrs. Clemens and the girls laughed without recognizing its authorship. One of them said, hesitatingly: Are you Mr. Mark Twain? Why, yes, dear, they call me that.


id: 2984
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
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sentence: 3936
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  In old age Mark Twain once referred to Orion's autobiography in print and his own disappointment in it, which he attributed to Orion's having departed from the idea of frank and unrestricted confession to exalt himself as a hero-a statement altogether unwarranted, and due to one of those curious confusions of memory and imagination that more than once resulted in a complete reversal of the facts. Tauchnitz had early published the 'Innocents', following it with other Mark Twain volumes as they appeared, paying always, of his own will and accord, all that he could afford to pay for this privilege; which was not really a privilege, for the law did not require him to pay at all.


id: 2982
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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  Sam Clemens and a boon companion, John Briggs, went up there to look and listen. Tom Blankenship rigged up a sail for the new craft, and Sam Clemens named it Cecilia, after which they didn't need to borrow boats any more, though the owner of it did; and he sometimes used to observe as he saw it pass that, if it had been any other color but red, he would have sworn it was his.


id: 2987
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
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sentence: 4626
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  Reconstruction of The Present Law Not Necessary:--A clause of the suggested amendment could read about as follows, and would obviate the necessity of taking the present law to pieces and building it over again: All books and all articles enjoying forty-two years copyright-life under the present law shall be admitted to the privilege of the thirty-year extension upon complying with the condition requiring the producing and placing upon permanent sale of one grade or form of said book or article at a price of 90 per cent. He says, 'Going to make tracks with 'em, because-- 'Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.


id: 19987
author: Twain, Mark
title: Chapters from My Autobiography
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  I worked in that little job-office in Keokuk as much as two years, I should say, without ever collecting a cent of wages, for Orion was never able to pay anything--but Dick Higham and I had good times. It was a comfortable boarding-place, well stocked with sweet mothers and little children, but the male sex was scarce; however, there was another young fellow besides myself, and he and I had good times--Higgins was his name, but that was not his fault.


