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Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835–1910), author and lecturer (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
The 148th most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 2350 quotations (about 0.07% of all OED quotations).
See article in American National Biography Online

Total number of quotations2350Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a word76Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a particular meaning526Find quotations
NameTotal QuotationsPercentage of quotations
1.Innocents Abroad24510.0%Find quotations in OED
2.Adventures Huckleberry Finn22410.0%Find quotations in OED
3.Roughing It1918.0%Find quotations in OED
4.Tramp Abroad1788.0%Find quotations in OED
5.Connecticut Yankee1667.0%Find quotations in OED
6.Life on Mississippi1336.0%Find quotations in OED
7.Adventures Tom Sawyer1306.0%Find quotations in OED
8.Let.823.0%Find quotations in OED
9.Gilded Age723.0%Find quotations in OED
10.Amer. Claimant623.0%Find quotations in OED

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