Quote #22

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

More from Mark Twain

  1. Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
  2. He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
  3. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
  4. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
  5. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
  6. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and …
  7. We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by …
  8. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.

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