But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
— Mark Twain Modern

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist

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From 'Letters from the Earth'

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c. 1909 (published 1962)

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Humorous

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