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* [[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.
* [[Take That]]: He deeply despised the pretentiousness of lacquered pseudo-medieval style of [[Walter Scott]] himself and even more so, of his fans. And pretentious pseudo-medieval architecture the latter promoted. Hence things like a sunken steamship called ''Walter Scott'' in ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' and possibly some of his more clumsy stabs at the [[Dung Ages]] elsewhere.
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