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

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LANGUAGE

Clemens reading
But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts--by help of the reader's imagination, which is always ready to take a hand and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.
- Following the Equator

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