The History Of The Race, And Each Individual's Experience, Are Thick With Evidence That A Truth Is Not Hard To Kill And That A Lie Told Well Is Immortal.

The History Of The Race, And Each Individual's Experience, Are Thick With Evidence That A Truth Is Not Hard To Kill And That A Lie Told Well Is Immortal.

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The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick
with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told
well is immortal.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
-- Advice to Youth (published 1923)

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.
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A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else
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God was left out of the constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
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The motto ("In God We Trust") stated a lie. If this nation ever trusted in God, that time has gone by
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Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party didn't miss the boat.
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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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