Twain Building

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“Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)