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• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.
  He could not even lie. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• George Washington said to his father, "If I never tell a lie, how can I get to be President?
  -- Red Butto...
• I can live for two months on a good compliment. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• 'Shit Happens' according to... Washington: I cannot tell a lie--shit happened.
• I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices.
  Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. all that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me...
• I do not like work even when someone else does it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)