Here is a link to a New Yorker article titled “How Mark Twain Tried to Get Rich Quick—Again and Again.”

From nonage to dotage, in dire straits or in the pink, Twain was always a capricious entrepreneur, counting the zeroes on an imaginary balance sheet. 
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-mark-twain-tried-to-get-rich-quick-again-and-again


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