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Mark Twain was a mop-headed male
Whose narratives sparkled like ale
And this Prince of the Grin
Who fathered Huck Finn
Can still hold the world by the tale!


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This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse.


Thornton Burgess

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Thornton Burgess

Thornton Burgess

Born: January 14, 1874
Died: June 5, 1965 (aged 91)
Bio: Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
Known for:
  1. Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913)
  2. Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919)
  3. Old Mother West Wind (1910)
  4. The Burgess animal book for children (1920)
  5. The adventures of Jimmy Skunk (1918)

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