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( A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's )
( works] "The                                                 )
( Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.                     )
(                 -- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The      )
(                 Bookman"), January 1901.                    )
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