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title: "8 Multiplication Table Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-somerset-maugham/man-has-always-found-it-easier-to-sacrifice-his-life-than-to-learn/)

[William Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-somerset-maugham/)

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> [According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/according-to-the-celestial-multiplication-table-once-one-is-three-and/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“The multiplication table is more wise and more absolute than the ancient god, for the multiplication table never (do you understand—never) makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-zamyatin/the-multiplication-table-is-more-wise-and-more-absolute-than-the/)

[Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-zamyatin/)

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> [“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-had-been-to-school-most-all-the-time-and-could-spell-and-read-and/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-looks-like-a-multiplication-table-or-a-mathematical/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/the-only-thing-you-can-be-sure-of-in-this-world-is-the-multiplication/)

[L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/)

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> [I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-garfield/i-will-not-vote-against-the-truths-of-the-multiplication-table/)

[James A. Garfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-garfield/)

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> [Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hilbert/keep-computations-to-the-lowest-level-of-the-multiplication-table/)

[David Hilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hilbert/)

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