MARK TWAIN WIT
A few quips from Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain): I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t. I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read. “When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his…
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