After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada.
He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. He died the day after the comet returned. We encountered an issue signing you up.
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Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain had originally intended for the novel to follow Tom into adulthood and conclude with his return to St. Petersburg after many years away. But he was never able to get his hero out of boyhood, however, and the novel ends with its protagonist still preparing to make the transition into adult life. Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Students are given little free time to learn the things they will need later in life. Education: Knowledge acquired by formal learning and instruction. Schooling: The process of being formally educated in a school as opposed to self-study, online learning, private tutorship etc.
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