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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Chapter Chapter Title Page A Whisper to the Reader 15 I. Pudd'nhead Wins His Name 17 II. Driscoll Spares His Slaves 27 III. Roxy Plays a Sh…
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Pudd'nhead Wins His Name
Tell the truth or trump but get the trick. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on th…
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Driscoll Spares His Slaves
Adam was but human this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mi…
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Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of ou…
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The Ways of the Changelings
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. There is this troubl…
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The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Pudd'nhead Wilson'…
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Swimming in Glory
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. Habit is habit, and no…
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The Unknown Nymph
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. The company b…
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Marse Tom Tramples His Chance
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not…
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Tom Practises Sycophancy
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. I…
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The Nymph Revealed
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Pudd'nhead Wilson…
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Pudd'nhead's Startling Discovery - (1)
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of…
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Pudd'nhead's Startling Discovery - (2)
"Yes, that is your way of talking," said Angelo, "but I know you I don't believe you thought of yourself at all. I keep that weapon yet tha…
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The Shame of Judge Driscoll
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is br…
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Tom Stares at Ruin
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Pudd'nhe…
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Roxana Insists Upon Reform
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by t…
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The Robber Robbed
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the o…
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Sold Down the River
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Pudd…
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The Judge Utters Dire Prophecy
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret tha…
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Roxana Commands
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the b…
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The Prophecy Realized
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. It were not best that we should al…
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The Murderer Chuckles
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with gre…
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Doom - (1)
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. April 1. This is the day…
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Doom - (2)
Wilson said to the foreman "Please turn that cardboard face down, and take this one, and compare it searchingly, by the magnifier, with the…