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Clemens never forgot that advice. e united wonderful tact with wonderful truth; and Clemens not only accepted her rule implicitly, but he rejoiced, he gloried in it. And one would have supposed that if Fran‡ois was aware of his master's condition he would have learned how to deal with it less forcibly. Artemus Ward wasin the height of his fame, and he encouraged his new-found brother-humorist and prophesied great things of him.

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