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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
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Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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Sawyer
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Hang
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Grow
Grows
Polly

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