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Mark Twain Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Birthday: November 30

Death: April 21

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

- Mark Twain

topic: Character, Home, Two, First Person, Devilish

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