Quote by Mark Twain

Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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Mark Twain

(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel."

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