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

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Dave Thomson

 

THOUGHT

A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always.
- Letter to Louis Pendleton, 8/4/1888

Life does not consist mainly--or even largely--of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

It is curious--the space-annihilating power of thought.
- Following the Equator

...the world will not stop and think--it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample.
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"


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