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

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INITIALS

 

And there are good and great men, no doubt, who put an initial for their first name and spell their second out in full--but the awful majority of men who do that, will lie, and swindle, and steal, just from a natural instinct.
- Letter to Olivia Clemens, 3 September 1869

 

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