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Fact Quotes by Mark Twain
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that…
- That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you…
- The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
- When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny…
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
- 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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