Autobiography of Mark Twain

Mark Twain''s daughter, Susy, wrote: "Papa…doesn''t like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn''t bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired, of course he said this in joke, but I''ve no dought [sic] it was founded on truth."—from the book

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