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On Nov. 2, 2022, we received an email from a reader who attached a quote meme and asked if it's true that author Mark Twain once said, "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to ...
“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie,” the quote, attributed to Mark Twain, reads. The quote doesn’t show up in a search of Google Books and the newspaper ...
A post (here) with more than 40,000 likes at the time of publishing includes the quote which reads, “The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie. – Mark Twain.” ...
The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a ... a website run by “Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations” author Garson O’Toole. “One reason why we ...
Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom ... "Familiarity breeds contempt—and children." "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." "Do not put off until tomorrow ...
Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.
It might be asking too much to bring back Mark Twain from the ... and misrepresentation is that truth has no place in Washington.” That was true when Twain first wrote it, somewhere before ...