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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
By hard, honest...
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By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half. . . . I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city.
Source: Spelling and Pictures, speech, 18 Sept. 1906, to Associated Press, New York City; in Mark Twain's Speeches, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, 1923.
-- 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.