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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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HEROINE

 

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Heroine: girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it.
Hero: person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

 

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