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

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art, and ignorant also of surgery. Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes, and surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues.
- Letter to San Francisco Alta California, dated May 28, 1867; published July 28, 1867

 

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