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Twain owned. "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." "God created war so that Americans would learn geography." "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." “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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EmperorFritoBandito posted:Twain reaming the poo poo out of James Fenimore Cooper is the most noble thing he ever did in a lifetime of good works IMHO. Twain posted:For instance: one of his acute Indian experts, Chingachgook (pronounced Chicago, I think), has lost the trail of a person he is tracking through the forest. Apparently that trail is hopelessly lost. Neither you nor I could ever have guessed the way to find it. It was very different with Chicago. Chicago was not stumped for long. He turned a running stream out of its course, and there, in the slush in its old bed, were that person's moccasin tracks. The current did not wash them away, as it would have done in all other like cases -- no, even the eternal laws of Nature have to vacate when Cooper wants to put up a delicate job of woodcraft on the reader. 
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