# Quote — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

> You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court.md)
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> The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can’t knock it out of him.

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> Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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