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Facts Quotes by Mark Twain

39 Facts quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain never shied away from turning the plain into the profound, and his thoughts on facts are no exception. In 39 witty observations, he blends sarcasm with a sharp eye for societal quirks, making each line feel like a friendly yet pointed conversation about what we accept as true.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there…

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and…

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is…

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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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…

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is…

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the…

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When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time,…

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely…

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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest…

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can…

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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it…

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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full…

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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer…

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is…

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven…

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money…

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect…

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the…

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“First get the facts, you can distort them later”

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“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

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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…

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not…

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever…

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle…

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)…

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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