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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christian Science (1907).
English (original)
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. Book I, Ch. 5
— Mark Twain
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