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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
Where a blood...
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Source: Letters from the Earth, From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette, pt. 1, At the Funeral. ed. Bernard DeVoto, 1962.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.