Vulgar words in Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 (Page 1)
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Only a few years ago (it was April, 1907), in his cabin on jackass Hill, with Joseph Goodman and the writer of this history present, Steve Gillis made his "death-bed" confession as is here set down: "Mark's lecture was given in Piper's Opera House, October 30, 1866.
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I saw, at once, what an ass I had been making of myself, and was accordingly confused and embarrassed.
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They are the very bastards of the devil."
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There is another, "The Autobiography of a Damn Fool," a burlesque on family history, hopelessly impossible; yet he began it with vast enthusiasm and, until he allowed her to see the manuscript, thought it especially good.