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

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- Watermelon speech, 1907

If you wish to lower yourself in a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way you heard it.
- Notebook, 1898

Twain tells stories

Twain portrayed in publication
Ein Siegeszug des Humors
December 1897.
Courtesy of Dave Thomson.

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