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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Excellent advice here from Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), the American writer best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). As a young man, before becoming a writer, Clemens worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and the pen name that he later adopted – Mark Twain – refers to the mark that indicates two fathoms deep on a Mississippi river boat.
Twain’s books have been the subject of bans because of their presentation of race in the Deep South of the United States. The objections are understandable today, although on the page Twain is critical of racist actions and in his life he was a fierce supporter of the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves.
You can find more from Twain on page 69.
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