Mark Twain1835–1910A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
And I by Opie ReadOne of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 7.- Said to portrait painter Samuel Johnson Woolf, cited in Here am I (1941), Samuel Johnson Woolf
- Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 2, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
- “My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It”, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IIn context
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXIIn context
