Mark Twain Frame Color:Black " published November 30

" published November 30

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This colorful illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli accompanied “Yes

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who served two terms as the 19th poet laureate of the United States

Mark Twain Frame Color:Black " published November 30Mark Twain relaxes in a rocking chair in New Hampshire in 1905. Twain would turn 70 the year this photo was taken, and he had told The New York Times that he had never done a day's work in his life. "No, Sir, not a day's work in all my life," he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905, "What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it has been work I shouldn't have done it."