Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Mark TwainFollowing the Equator (1897), ch. 52
About Mark Twain
American humorist and novelist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (1835-1910)
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- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 6
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.Following the Equator (1897), ch. 15
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Interview by Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea (1899)
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