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

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Tom Sawyer's practical joke
Antique German edition from the
Dave Thomson collection
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PRACTICAL JOKES

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job-lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
- Mark Twain's Own Autobiography (from North American Review, Feb. 1, 1907)

 


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