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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain In Eruption
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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