"A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~ Mark Twain ~











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"This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. ...
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
"The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could ...
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
"A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...
"I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth...
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
"If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
"Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
"The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is i...


