Mark Twain said this ?

If you find a half starved dog  and feed him to recovery and health, he will not bite you!
This is the essential difference between man and dog.
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and then he said this:

Get your facts first, then you can distort them 
as you please !

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and then he issued this pearl of wisdom:

"The lack of money is the root of all evil"

Bertstravel

thinks the first and last are true,

the middle one is funny.