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  • As its cult status grew through the decades, even the parsonlike Paine was forced to admit that the sketch was a classic, and to hope that standards of decorum in future years would relax enough to give the essay “shelter and setting among the more conventional writings of Mark Twain.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • As its cult status grew through the decades, even the parsonlike Paine was forced to admit that the sketch was a classic, and to hope that standards of decorum in future years would relax enough to give the essay “shelter and setting among the more conventional writings of Mark Twain.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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