The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Mark Twain

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Mark Twain

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When its steamboat time
you steamboat

Mark Twain


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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Mark Twain

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Mark Twain

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies.

Mark Twain


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Cheer up, the worst is yet to come!

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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Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

Mark Twain


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