Twain and Tesla's friendship was forged more or less from geeking out as fanboys of one another.

吐温与尼古拉斯? 特斯拉是彼此的粉丝，他们的友谊或多或少由此建立。

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Mark Twain, one of our most famous writers, and Charlie Chaplin, the great movie comedian, dropped out of school before 8th grade.

最著名的作家之一马克·土温以及伟大的喜剧演员查理·卓别林都在8年级之前就退了学。

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Justin Kaplan, author of "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: a Biography," said in a telephone interview: "one thing that gets Mark Twain going is his rage and resentment."

贾斯丁·卡普兰是“克莱门斯先生和马克·吐温传”的作者，他在电话采访中说：“马克·吐温的长盛不衰，有一个原因是他的暴怒和厌憎。”

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Two snowy custom dress shirts lie side by side, one belonging to Mark Twain and the other to Oscar Wilde (saved from oblivion because it was at the laundry when he died).

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He wrote off extravagance as detrimental to body and mind, sounding like no one so much as Mark Twain, resisting the siren call of Europe many centuries later.

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It will serve a larger purpose, too, the same one that motivated satirists from Aristophanes and Juvenal to Swift and Pope to Mark Twain and the creators of "Dr. Strangelove": to curb self-indulgence, deflate pretense, and expel stupidity.

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