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* * Mark Twain once with a wife sitting,he said to her:“Do you really beautiful”,Mrs. Arrogant answer:“Unfortuntunately,I can’t equally praising you.” Mark Twain do not mind at all and said laughingly:“ Lady, If, like me telling lies there. ” Mark Twain’s Early Life Travels Marriage and children Later Life Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant Early Life florida a port town on the Mississippi River When Twain was four, his mother died, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri At that time, Missouri was a slave state, and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing. when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia. The next year, he became a printers apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City. He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventional (一般的） school. At 22, Twain returned to Missouri. He worked as a river pilot until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was curtailed(缩减). Travels Twain and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City along the way. Twains journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, where he became a miner. Twain failed as a miner and found work at a Virginia City newspaper, Here he first used his famous pen name. During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, whi