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

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Looking for faults
Illustration by "Dwig" from
Brevities, 1903

FAULT

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintenances.
- The Gilded Age

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927


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