The trouble with the world is not that people know too litt… - Mark Twain

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Mark Twain

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About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Pen Names: Sieur Louis de Conte • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass • J. W. Bothwell

Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Louis de Conte

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

"What's your name?"
"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
"Yes"

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. - Mark Twain

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