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“I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”

— Mark Twain

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Source

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Wikiquote: Mark Twain
Type
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Context

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865; revised by the author and reprinted the following month in The Californian

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Twain, Mark. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mark Twain. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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