I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it e… - Mark Twain

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Pen Names: Sieur Louis de Conte • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass • J. W. Bothwell

Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Louis de Conte

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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