So true.

"(1) Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
(2) Every moment you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of joy.
[...]
None of the early instances found by QI [Quote Investigator] provided an ascription. Thus, the originator remains anonymous."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/03/18/minute-happiness/

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@Dianora There's no evidence that Twain ever said this, which should be taken as he did not say it until proven otherwise. The lack of evidence is confirmed by:

#Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/

Quote investigator:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/23/fooled/

And most importantly by the Mark Twain Project, as cited by Snopes.

There are so many fake or misattributed #quotes floating around the web, a cottage industry of websites generating #memes like this one in fact. It's only going to get worse with these damn #AI #chatbots generating more garbage. #garbageingarbageout #quoteinvestigator

@jbrains The origin of that saying is murky.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/14/forgiveness/
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Tracing the history of this interesting quotation: "It Is Quite As Important To Know What Kind of a Patient the Disease Has Got As To Know What Kind of a Disease the Patient Has Got"

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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/20/patient/

Evidence there was a time traveller from the present in 1969! :-) An eerily accurate quote about reading ebooks on the phone.

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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/09/ebook/

Quote Investigator looks at the origins of Google's motto, "Don’t Be Evil".

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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/07/no-evil/