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Mark Twain
Mark Twain: A Life | Ron Powers
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Ron Powerss tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twains voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.
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MoonWitch94
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Repost for @Clwojick and #TeamSlaughter. Mark Twain is the author of this quote 🌑🌖🌕

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#quotsyjan19 @TK-421
Prompt: Forbid

Slajaunie 💚💚💚 6y
Leftcoastzen This is awesome! 6y
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Kimberlone
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New month, new quote. Surprisingly haven‘t encountered this Twain quote before!

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Cathythoughts
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#QuotsyFeb18 #Fool

“When I was a boy of 14 , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 , I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years “
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I thought of this quote in relation to #fool In my memory he called his father a fool. But the quote is slightly different than I remembered. Same idea though I think 👍🏻

Kaye I just love photos of Mark Twain. Such an interesting face. 7y
Cathythoughts @Kaye I agree ! He has an amazing face ✨✨✨ 7y
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Dentro de veinte años te arrepentirás de las cosas que no hiciste no de las que hiciste . Mark Twain

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MrBook 😂👏🏻 7y
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Andrew65
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Can‘t beat a Mark Twain quote. #QuotsyDec17 #dance

Cathythoughts That‘s the one 👍 7y
Andrew65 @Cathythoughts Thanks 😊 7y
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I need to remember this in those times I‘m not feeling so #bold
#quotsynov17

Gezemice I wish I knew this twenty years ago. 🙁 7y
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ValerieAndBooks
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Visited the Mark Twain home in Hartford, CT today. No interior pictures allowed -- thus no pictures of his library room or bookshelves 😢. Top picture was in the gift shop.

LeahBergen I want to go there, too!! 7y
LitLogophile Love that quote! 7y
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BostonBookAddict Oh I need to go there!!! 7y
Lmstraubie Very 😎 7y
Jinjer Gotta learn how to take pics by holding your iPhone at hip level and angling it just so. But you didn't hear that from me.😇 7y
DivineDiana Love this! 7y
TieDyeDude Great museum! Do they still have the giant Lego statue? 7y
ValerieAndBooks @GoodForCirculation haha yes the giant Lego statue was practically the first thing that greeted us 😊 7y
ValerieAndBooks @Jinjer ahh, new meaning to the term "shooting from the hip" ?. 7y
ValerieAndBooks @LeahBergen @Graciouswarriorprincess @BostonBookAddict @Lmstraubie @DivineDiana it's definitely a beautiful home. It came close to being razed about 70 years ago, good thing it was saved! @LitLogophile Mark Twain definitely is very quote-worthy -- the shop was full of items with various quotes 😄 7y
kspenmoll It's fun to visit during Halloween and beautiful at Christmas time. 🎃🎅🤶🏻🎄 7y
SilversReviews Love the photo and the saying. 7y
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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#library #bookshelf #bookworm #bookphoto #shelf #shelfie #booknerd

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Grownwomanreadya
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
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Goodnight guys ? #Shelfie

annkuch13 Gorgeous shelfie! 😍 7y
bookish.k Your shelves are gorgeous! 😍😍 7y
Grownwomanreadya @annkuch13 Aww thank you 🤗 7y
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Grownwomanreadya @bookish.k Thanks 🙈💕 7y
thebookdiviner It pleases me so much when all the books align, I get shivers 😂 this is a sexy as heck shelfie 😉 7y
Grownwomanreadya @thebookdiviner haha! I did my best 😏🙈😎 7y
Bookshelfuser Where did you get this sign from its so cute!' 💛 7y
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Happy New Year!
Mark Twain's humor is timeless 🙌

britt_brooke 💕💕💕 8y
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Found a Mark Twain #paddywax candle today for 85% off! It smells like tobacco and vanilla. Great addition to my library.