Mark Twain Quote - I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
— Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
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Decision
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Meaning of this quote

The speaker jokes that slow decision-making must indicate a large mind. The wordplay turns indecision into mock self-importance.

Key takeaway: Keep humour about indecision while still making necessary choices.

Origin of the quote

A variant of a remark indexed in Twain’s works.

Who actually said this?

Commonly attributed

The Gutenberg quotation index uses prodigious quantity rather than amount. The exact posted sentence and its primary location were not independently confirmed.

Attributed author: Mark Twain, altered wording; exact passage pending confirmation

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