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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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"A Mysterious Visit", Buffalo Express, 19 March 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old? (1875).

 
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