Quote#Wisdom
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed", The Century, Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1885Anthologized in [http://books.google.com/books?id=1T00Sc_cVYIC The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches (1898).
English (original)
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
— Mark Twain
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