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

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ILLUSIONS

The list of things which we absolutely know, is not a long one, and we have not the luck to add a fresh one to it often, but I recognized that I had added one to mine this day. I knew, now, that it isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
- "Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes"

Illusion of Mark Twain found in the wood grain of a kitchen cabinet door. From an ebay auction, January 2006. Photo used with permission of the owner.


Postcard from the
Dave Thomson collection

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

 

 

 


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