Mark Twain is quoted to show that the disapproval of smiles in pictures was a deep-rooted belief.

文章引用马克·吐温的话表明，表明在照相时不愿微笑是源于一种根深蒂固的信念。

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Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be "nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever".

就连乐于开怀大笑的马克吐温也说，当谈到人像照片时，“没有什么比一个又傻又蠢的微笑被永远定格更可怕的了”。

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Ron Powers is the author of Mark Twain: A Life, and Sam and Laura, a play about Twain and his lost love.

罗恩·鲍沃斯，《山姆和劳拉：马克·吐温的爱情人生》的作者，一部关于马克·吐温失去的爱情的戏剧。

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And they disliked the way Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story.

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Mark Twain was already a successful writer before he became famous as a public speaker.

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So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.

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Mark Twain was a pretty good stock pundit, which is why I named one of my thrillers The Twain Maxim after him.

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Mark Twain has a hundred and fifty-three quotations, Oscar Wilde a hundred and twenty-three.

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