I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in Hannibal. He was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Throughout his career, Twain served as a writer, lecturer, reporter, editor, printer, and prospector. Twain took his pen name from an alert cry used on his steamboat – “by the mark, twain”.
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Stories and Quotes from the Mind* and Keyboard of A.A.Forringer 
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