The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

~ Mark Twain

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

~ Mark Twain

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Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises.

~ Dave Matthes

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For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

~ Dennis R. Miller

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Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

~ Mark Twain

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

~ Mark Twain

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

~ Mark Twain

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