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Author Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
- Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting…
- Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
- There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read…
- Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting…
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