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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
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ISBN/ASIN: B003JMEYEE

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" I was born without teeth -- and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. "

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