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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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EMOTION

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
- "Cooper's Prose Style," Letters from the Earth

And mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
- Life on the Mississippi

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