Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
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Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .
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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!