The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
— Mark Twain Modern

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist

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Letter to George Bainton

Date / Period

1888

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3168/3168-h/3168-h.htm

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