[Ads-l] Mark Twain Does It Again

Jonathan Lighter 00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Fri Aug 8 12:23:05 UTC 2025


Mark Twain  keeps coming up with new, brilliant aphorisms despite being
long dead. This makes him a greater writer than Shakespeare.

I found three of the latest in one place. A quick search suggests
(strongly) that he never said or wrote any of them while alive:

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been
fooled."

"No amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot."

“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."

Over to you, Garson.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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