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One never ceases to make a hero of one's self (in private). — Mark Twain

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One never ceases to make a hero of one's self (in private).

Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873
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Topic
DelusionSelf-aggrandizementEgo
Medium
Novel
Time
1873
Person
Mark Twain
Provenance
Current citation
Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 10.
Original citation
Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873, ch. 10.

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