The fact of the business is, you've got to be one of two ages to appreciate [Walter] Scott. When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want t… - Mark Twain

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The fact of the business is, you've got to be one of two ages to appreciate [Walter] Scott. When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest.

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About Mark Twain

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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