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

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JUMPING FROG of Calaveras County

It certainly had a wide celebrity...but I was aware that it was only the frog that was celebrated. It wasn't I.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography		 Twain and frog

Jumping Frog statue at Angel's Camp
Photo of Mark Twain statute with jumping frogs from
Angel's Camp, CA
courtesy of Dave Thomson.

The statue of Mark Twain in
Utica Park was donated to the
City of Angels on May 25, 1944
by Warner Bros. after the filming of
The Adventures of Mark Twain.
The statue was made by
P.C. Manuelli,
a noted Italian sculptor.

 [Speaking of Smiley, hero of the Jumping Frog story]
He was a real character, and his name was Greeley. The way he got the name of Smiley was this--I wrote the story for the New York Saturday Gazette, a perishing weekly so-called literary newspaper--a home of poverty; it was the last number-- the jumping frog killed it. They had not enough "G's", so they changed Greeley's name to "Smiley." That's a fact.
- "Mark Twain Put to the Question" interview, Adelaide South Australian Register, 10/14/1895

 



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