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Twain Pays It All Back
Mark Twain went bankrupt on a typesetting machine and toured the world on stage to repay every creditor in full
America's most famous writer went broke at 58. The law let him pay back half. He chose to pay it all.
You'll find out
- What a machine cost Mark Twain
- Why he refused the easy way out
- What the world tour cost him
Why it matters
A debt is a promise. This is the story of what keeping one cost, and what it gave back.
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