“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite pict…”

“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.”

— Mark Twain

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Title: Wikiquote: Mark Twain
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"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)

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Twain, Mark. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mark Twain. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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