"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
-Mark Twain
Well, Happy Christmas to all that participate in such activities and of course Happy-Every-Holiday-Which-Falls-Around-The-Time-of-Christmas. I'm feeling lazy today so I am going with something short and easy. Today's quote is from Mark Twain (1835-1910), one of the most significant satirists to have graced humanity with his writing. In this quote Twain explains, in reference to the sharing and dispersing of information, that one can alter facts to ones liking, but only after you have absorbed them properly. The statement is undeniably cynical which keeps with Twain's affinity for dark humor.
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri; you may know as the famous 19th century author responsible for contributing such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the canon of classic American literature. Twain was intriguingly born when our Earth's sky was visited by Halley's Comet and subsequently passed away (at his own prediction) one day after its next appearance. Freaky.
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