赞美
有一次马克·吐温与一位夫人对坐，他对她说：“你真漂 亮，”夫人高傲地回答：“可惜我实在无法同样地赞美你。” 马克·吐温毫不介意地笑笑说：“夫人，只要像我一样说假话 就行了。”
回敬
法国名人波盖取笑美国人历史太短，说：“美国人没事 的时候，往往喜欢怀念祖宗，可是一想到祖父一代，就不 能不打住了。” 马克·吐温回敬说：“法国人没事的时候， 总是想弄清他们的父亲是谁，可是很难弄清楚。”
February 3, 1863, that “Mark Twain” was born when Clemens, then 27, signed a humorous travel account with that pseudonym.A riverman’s term)
Different pen names before Mark Twain: Josh Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
Horace Bixby. Spends next two years “learning” the river, later described in Life on the Mississippi.
• Later he was to say, “In that brief, sharp schooling, I got personally and familiarly acquainted with about all the different types of human nature… When I find a welldrawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before. I’ve met him on the river.”
