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- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
- Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
- Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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