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Tag: Samuel Clemens

Posted on August 8, 2025August 7, 2025

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on June 2, 2023

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

“The very ink which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

“Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on December 19, 2020December 19, 2020

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

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