
| Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and 
      grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. - "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"  | 
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The second home of the Clemens family at Florida, MO. It was 
  often pointed out as Mark Twain's birthplace. 
  Clemens wrote about this house, 
  "No, it is too stylish, it is not my birthplace."
  Photo from St. Nicholas, November 1915. 
  
  
  
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