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** While living in San Francisco Clemens got to know Emperor Norton I. The King character from [[Huckleberry Finn]] is based on Norton. When he heard Norton had died, Clemens regretted never getting a chance of writing an honest biography of the Emperor.
* [[Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated]]: [[Trope Namer]] ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|sort of]]). The actual quote is "The report of my death is an exaggeration."
* [[The Roast]]: Clemens was the inadvertent creator of the celebrity roast, after an attempt to tell a self-deprecating story at a banquet [[Insult Backfire|backfired horribly.]] He was later called on to do the same thing for [[Ulysses S. Grant]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: Always very cynical. [[It Got Worse]] after he outlived his wife and all but one of his children.
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