It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.
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About Mark Twain
Mark Twain was a 19th-century American author and humorist. 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". Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it