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Mark Twain quotes

26 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Mark Twain wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Page 2 of 2.

I take so much pleasure in my story that I am loath to hurry, not wanting to get it done.

— Mark Twain, letter to William Dean Howells, quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), Chapter CXXV

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