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Mark Twain

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An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
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"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", The Century, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1885. Anthologized in The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches (1898).

 
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