They [the Concord, Mass. Library] have expelled Huck from their library as “trash and suitable only for the slums.” That will sell 25,000 copies for … - Mark Twain

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They [the Concord, Mass. Library] have expelled Huck from their library as “trash and suitable only for the slums.” That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure.

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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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Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Alternative Names: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass Samuel L. Clemens Samuel Clemens Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
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There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing — and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.

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