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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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FAITH

Twain with book
Illustration from SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
November 26, 1905

There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Nobody deserves to be helped who don't try to help himself, and "faith without works" is a risky doctrine.
- "Important Correspondence," The Californian, May 6, 1865


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