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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
― Mark Twain

“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
― Mark Twain

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
― Mark Twain

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
― Mark Twain

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
― Mark Twain