Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much… - Mark Twain

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

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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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

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