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id: 8475
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.
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  In those times, the principal saloons were always populous with river men; given fifty players present, thirty or thirty-five were likely to be from the river. This is in the hands--along the two thousand miles of river between St. Paul and New Orleans---of two or three close corporations well fortified with capital; and by able and thoroughly business-like management and system, these make a sufficiency of money out of what is left of the once prodigious steamboating industry.


id: 8480
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.
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  In a Memphis graveyard is buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, in White River, to save the lives of other men. Chapter 46 Enchantments and Enchanters THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample--the Mardi-Gras festivities.


id: 8478
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
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  Chapter 38 The House Beautiful WE took passage in a Cincinnati boat for New Orleans; or on a Cincinnati boat--either is correct; the former is the eastern form of putting it, the latter the western. To a few people living in New Orleans and St. Louis, they were not magnificent, perhaps; not palaces; but to the great majority of those populations, and to the entire populations spread over both banks between Baton Rouge and St. Louis, they were palaces; they tallied with the citizen's dream of what magnificence was, and satisfied it.


id: 8472
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.
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  Mr. Bixby was a hero that night; and it was some little time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Mr. Bixby, my chief, 'straightened her up,' plowed her along past the sterns of the other boats that lay at the Levee, and then said, 'Here, take her; shave those steamships as close as you'd peel an apple.'


id: 8474
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.
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  He was having good times now; for his boss, George Ealer, was as kindhearted as Brown wasn't. Citizens crowd the decks of boats that are not to go, in order to see the sight.


id: 8477
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.
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  Said he, 'I will not deceive you; he told me such a monstrous lie once, that it swelled my left ear up, and spread it so that I was actually not able to see out around it; it remained so for months, and people came miles to see me fan myself with it. Among other things, he said that Arkansas had been injured and kept back by generations of exaggerations concerning the mosquitoes here.


id: 8481
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.
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  Same verdict concerning other boys. In my terror and misery, I meanly began to suggest other boys, and mention acts of theirs which were wickeder than mine, and peculiarly needed punishment--and I tried to pretend to myself that I was simply doing this in a casual way, and without intent to divert the heavenly attention to them for the purpose of getting rid of it myself.


id: 8471
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.
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  These cut-offs have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The chiefs house contained an audience room forty feet square; and there he received Tonty in State, surrounded by sixty old men clothed in white cloaks.


id: 8476
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.
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  During our trip to New Orleans and back, we had many conversations with river men, planters, journalists, and officers of the River Commission-- with conflicting and confusing results. This gentleman said-- 'There's been more than one feud around here, in old times, but I reckon the worst one was between the Darnells and the Watsons.


id: 8473
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
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  It was a bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains and owners agreed that there was no other way. By this time about half the boats had none but association pilots, and the other half had none but outsiders.


id: 5811
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4
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  One is in honor of white men who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism and barbarism. It is a monument erected by white men to Maoris who fell fighting with the whites and against their own people, in the Maori war.


id: 8582
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 1.
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  About Carson--General Buncombe--Hyde vs. Morgan--How Hyde Lost His Ranch --The Great Landslide Case--The Trial--General Buncombe in Court--A Wonderful Decision--A Serious Afterthought CHAPTER XXXV. Freights to California--Silver Bricks--Under Ground Mines--Timber Supports--A Visit to the Mines--The Caved Mines--Total of Shipments in 1863 CHAPTER LIII.


id: 8588
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 7.
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  The affection and the pride that lit up Baker's face when he delivered this tribute to the firmness of his humble friend of other days, will always be a vivid memory with me. Look at him, sitting there presiding over the deliberations of a legislative body, among whom are white men--a grave, dignified, statesmanlike personage, and as seemingly natural and fitted to the place as if he had been born in it and had never been out of it in his life time.


id: 5809
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2
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  You saw that there was a supernatural property in the hair of Samson; for you perceived that when his hair was gone he was as other men. A village of sheet iron huts and clapboard sheds sprang up in the sand, and in these wigwams fashion made display; richly-dressed ladies played on costly pianos, London swells in evening dress and patent-leather boots were abundant, and this fine society drank champagne, and in other ways conducted itself in this capital of humble sheds as it had been accustomed to do in the aristocratic quarters of the metropolis of the world.


id: 8587
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 6.
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  They are a harmless race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than dogs; in fact they are almost entirely harmless anyhow, for they seldom think of resenting the vilest insults or the cruelest injuries. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.


id: 8482
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
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  Soon, very soon, a party of young men will arrive and apply to me for aid; but alas! A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?' Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men.


id: 5810
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3
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  I saw that with New Zealand gone, he was a Samson shorn of his locks; he was as other men. Here extends mile after mile of primeval forest where perhaps foot of white man has never trod--interminable vistas where the eucalyptus trees rear their lofty trunks and spread forth their lanky limbs, from which the red gum oozes and hangs in fantastic pendants like crimson stalactites; ravines along the sides of which the long-bladed grass grows rankly; level untimbered plains alternating with undulating tracts of pasture, here and there broken by a stony ridge, steep gully, or dried-up creek.


id: 8589
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 8.
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  If I could have gained more time I am sure he would not even have struck me. And there was a large temple near at hand which was built in a single night, in the midst of storm and thunder and rain, by the ghastly hands of dead men!


id: 3390
author: Howells, William Dean
title: My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
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  Well, Mr. Clemens,' he said, 'nobody seems to have a very good word for you.' He likes Mr. Clemens very much, my representative answered, and he thinks him one of the greatest men he ever knew.


id: 8584
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 3.
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  But in the night the pup would get stretchy and brace his feet against the old man's back and shove, grunting complacently the while; and now and then, being warm and snug, grateful and happy, he would paw the old man's back simply in excess of comfort; and at yet other times he would dream of the chase and in his sleep tug at the old man's back hair and bark in his ear. A depression, where its bed had once been, in other times, was already filling, and in one or two places the water was beginning to wash over the main bank.


id: 5808
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1
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  For instance, many of their friends had been devoured by sharks; the sharks, in their turn, were caught and eaten by other men; later, these men were captured in war, and eaten by the enemy. The loneliness, the solemnity, the beauty, and the deep repose of this wilderness have a charm which is all their own for the bruised spirit of men who have fought and failed in the struggle for life in the great world; and for men who have been hunted out of the great world for crime; and for other men who love an easy and indolent existence; and for others who love a roving free life, and stir and change and adventure; and for yet others who love an easy and comfortable career of trading and money-getting, mixed with plenty of loose matrimony by purchase, divorce without trial or expense, and limitless spreeing thrown in to make life ideally perfect.


id: 8583
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 2.
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  We left the snowy Wind River Mountains and Uinta Mountains behind, and sped away, always through splendid scenery but occasionally through long ranks of white skeletons of mules and oxen--monuments of the huge emigration of other days--and here and there were up-ended boards or small piles of stones which the driver said marked the resting-place of more precious remains. I wonder if they bequeathed that bald-headed anecdote to their successors, the railroad brakemen and conductors, and if these latter still persecute the helpless passenger with it until he concludes, as did many a tourist of other days, that the real grandeurs of the Pacific coast are not Yo Semite and the Big Trees, but Hank Monk and his adventure with Horace Greeley.


id: 8585
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 4.
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  Draw your weepon! With that, Arkansas began to shoot, and the landlord to clamber over benches, men and every sort of obstacle in a frantic desire to escape. If we had approached it half an hour earlier the night before, we must have heard men shouting there and firing pistols; for they were expecting some sheep drovers and their flocks and knew that they would infallibly get lost and wander out of reach of help unless guided by sounds.


id: 5814
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7
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  The capitalists and other chief men of Johannesburg were fretting under various political and financial burdens imposed by the State (the South African Republic, sometimes called the Transvaal) and desired to procure by peaceful means a modification of the laws. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Dr. Jameson, and others responsible for the Raid, have testified before the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry in London, and so have Mr. Lionel Phillips and other Johannesburg Reformers, monthly-nurses of the Revolution which was born dead.


id: 5813
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6
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  For India has been a fertile breeding-ground of such men, and remains so; great men, both in war and in the civil service, and as modest as great. Sometimes he sees a prince and denies himself to a pauper; at other times he receives the pauper and turns the prince away.


id: 8586
author: Twain, Mark
title: Roughing It, Part 5.
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  In his day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try --but in our day of telegraphs and newspapers his plan compels us to swear in juries composed of fools and rascals, because the system rigidly excludes honest men and men of brains. At midnight of this woful tenth day, the ledge would be relocatable, and by eleven o'clock the hill was black with men prepared to do the relocating.


id: 5812
author: Twain, Mark
title: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5
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  And here and there, in the midst of this hurly-burly, and seemingly undisturbed by it, sat great groups of natives on the bare stone floor,--young, slender brown women, old, gray wrinkled women, little soft brown babies, old men, young men, boys; all poor people, but all the females among them, both big and little, bejeweled with cheap and showy nose-rings, toe-rings, leglets, and armlets, these things constituting all their wealth, no doubt. He accepted that trust, good man; and so we know what went with the traveler.


id: 8479
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
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  In a Memphis graveyard is buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, in White River, to save the lives of other men. Soon, very soon, a party of young men will arrive and apply to me for aid; but alas!


id: 3195
author: Twain, Mark
title: Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
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  Why, it's like old times, to step right into the study, damp from the breakfast table, and sail right in and sail right on, the whole day long, without thought of running short of stuff or words. Go on and write; you can write good books yet, but you can never match this one.


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: 3463
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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  Mr. Rogers neither lent nor gave Mark Twain money, and never allowed him to speculate when he could prevent it. It is the story of one of the world's very great men--the story of Mark Twain.


id: 2984
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
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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: 2985
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
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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: 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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  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.


