Tag: Mark Twain
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.’
Mark Twain
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A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
Mark Twain
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain