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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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GIRLS

The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing, and one is acquainted with her and on the pleasantest terms with her before he knows how it came about.
- The American Claimant

Twain and angelfish

Clemens and the "angelfish" at Stormfield


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