Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

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As quoted in “An Interview with Mark Twain”, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, Ch. 37, p. 180
Commonly paraphrased as: “First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.”

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Mark Twain. (2023, November 25). Wikiquote. Retrieved January 7, 2024 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Twain&oldid=3407072.

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