"...whereby we learn that, since a hundred million dollars in New York and twenty-two fish-hooks on the border of the Arctic Circle represent the same financial supremacy, a man in straitened circumstances is a fool to stay in New York when he can buy twenty cents worth of fish-hooks and emigrate."
Biographical Sketch
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He had one son and three daughters with his wife Livy; his son, Langdon, born in 1870, died at two years of age. His oldest daughter, Suzy, was born in 1872, Clara in 1874 and Jean in 1880. 6 years after his wife's death in 1904, he traveled to Bermuda "for his health" and ended up developing heart problems. He died on April 21, 1910. His childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (the model for St. Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) is still standing and is open to the public.
On another note: I wonder what Mark Twain would say about Lady Gaga.
Works Cited
"The Official Web Site of Mark Twain." CMG Worldwide. Web. 21 Feb. 2010.
Twain, Mark J. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics). New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. Print.
