Top 10 Mark Twain quotes about truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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