The Mysterious Stranger

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“Well, I will tell you, and you must understand if you can. You belong to a singular race. Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. In most cases the man's life is about equally divided between happiness and unhappiness. When this is not the case the unhappiness predominates--always; never the other. Sometimes a man's make and disposition are such that his misery- machine is able to do nearly all the business. Such a man goes through life almost ignorant of what happiness is. Everything he touches, everything he does, brings a misfortune upon him. You have seen such people? To that kind of a person life is not an advantage, is it? It is only a disaster. Sometimes for an hour's happiness a man's machinery makes him pay years of misery. Don't you know that? It happens every now and then.”
—Mark Twain

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The mysterious stranger (1970)

University of California Press

ISBN 10: 0520016610

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (Twain, Mark//Mark Twain Library) (2004)

University of California Press

Paperback

ISBN 10: 0520242068

ISBN 13: 9780520242067

The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Literature) (2005)

University of California Press

Paperback

ISBN 10: 0520246950

ISBN 13: 9780520246959

Mark Twain's Mysterious stranger manuscipts (1969)

University of California Press

ISBN 10: 0520014731

Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (The Mark Twain papers) (1981)

Univ of California Pr

Paperback

ISBN 10: 0520016610

ISBN 13: 9780520016613

No. 44, the mysterious stranger (2003)

University of California Press

ISBN 10: 0520242068

The Mysterious Stranger - A Romance (2004)

NuVision Publications

eBook

ISBN 10: 1595470255

No. 44, the mysterious stranger (1982)

University of California Press

ISBN 10: 0520045440

The Mysterious Stranger (2004)

1st World Library - Literary Society

Paperback

ISBN 10: 1595403264

ISBN 13: 9781595403261

The Mysterious Stranger (2006)

1st World Library

E-book

ISBN 10: 1595403760

The Mysterious Stranger (Large Print Edition) (2007)

BiblioBazaar

Paperback

ISBN 10: 1434678814

ISBN 13: 9781434678812

The Mysterious Stranger (2004)

BookSurge Classics

Paperback

ISBN 10: 1594567328

ISBN 13: 9781594567322

The Mysterious Stranger (2005)

1st World Library - Literary Society

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421807769

ISBN 13: 9781421807768

The Mysterious Stranger (2004)

Kessinger Publishing

Paperback

ISBN 10: 1419174959

ISBN 13: 9781419174957

The Mysterious Stranger (2002)

IndyPublish.com

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1404320121

ISBN 13: 9781404320123

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