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Mark Twain
Posted by whaleadmin in Education on July 14th, 2009
Mark Twain’s life has been conveyed in many different lights, most of which are blameless. His life was filled with new and exciting challenges and loads of witty remarks to which he gave these trials. He is known to be one of the sharpest and quickest when it comes to witty remarks and satire; as a result, he has fascinated young and old for over a century. Writing for fifty years, Mark Twain‘s endearing personality, intelligent wit, satirical vernacular and writing style have made him one of the greatest writers of all time.
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Mark Twain was not only an absolutely fascinating writer, but a man always with a smile on his face, and rightly so, with so many humorous quotes taken from him. He is said to have been one of the “most leisurely men in the world”. A ‘printer’s devil’ in one of the shops where he worked, tells of his strange habits at work: “One of my habits was to sweep the room where the editors worked. Every day Mark would give me a nickel to get away from him. He would rather die in the dust than uncross his legs. One day he gave me a nickel to dot an “I” in his copy for him. He certainly did enjoy life, that man did.”
Though he was very leisurely and very humorous, he would not rest if there was a debt needed to be paid off. Sure, he could have gone into bankruptcy with his good name still intact, but he was particularly honest, and it would have been against his conscience to do something of that nature. He was a saint in his own right and a comedian in others‘.