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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
I am admonished...
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on th
Source: Refusing an invitation to attend 80th anniversary celebrations of the state of Missouri; letter, 19 Jul 1901; in Letters of Mark Twain, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, 1917
-- 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.