[DOC] [TLE] A Gold Mine Is a Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top | Quote ... [PAR] Jul 19, 2015 ... Dear Quote Investigator: Recently, a business website published an article about investing in gold and mining equities. The columnist began with a very funny and facetious remark attributed to Mark Twain: A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing on top of it. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain quotations - Miner [PAR] It was the introduction of Mark Twain, lecturer, to an audience of gold-miners at ... 
n't know me then; but all just miners with their breeches tucked into their boot-
tops. ... Mark Twain has described a mine as "a hole in the ground owned by a 
liar. [DOC] [TLE] The Big Apple: A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top [PAR] Aug 13, 2013 ... "A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing on top of it is a ... A man 
in Atchison, Kan., has given utterance of a heartfelt definition of a gold ... Had 
Mark Twain said it, the many 1903 newspapers that published this... [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain: "A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing next ... [PAR] Feb 28, 2011 ... As Mark Twain said, the definition of a mine is "a hole in the ground with a ... I'm 
not accusing anyone of lying here, but in the financial markets,... [DOC] [TLE] A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground | Outside Online [PAR] Feb 18, 2015 ... A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground ... That's how Mark Twain defined a 
gold miner. ... Cheeseburger for a ride to the truck, parked at the top of Tucson's 
Mount Lemmon, some four miles up a skeleton trail more suited... [DOC] [TLE] A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top - Broyhill Asset ... [PAR] Oct 7, 2009 ... Mark Twain once wrote A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top. ... 
Ben Bernanke standing proudly on top  the cavernous hole in household net ... 
Investors, who are by definition net long in paper currencies, will... [DOC] [TLE] Fool's Gold Miners: A Story Of What Can, And Will, Go Wrong With ... [PAR] Nov 18, 2012 ... It's sorta hard to pin down the actual Mark Twain quote...but the variants go 
something like this.. A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. 
or..... A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top. and.... A gold mine is 
... Agreed but what is true at the extremes will also be true at the mean. [DOC] [TLE] Geotimes  January 2005  Investigating Mining Frauds [PAR] The simplest definition I know is that fraud is "theft by lying," the claiming of that 
which is not so. One of the most infamous definitions of a mine is "a hole in the 
ground owned by a liar" (a quote that was attributed to Mark Twain in The .... I 
also photographed a colleague standing in the midst of a grove of alder trees that 
had... [DOC] [TLE] JIm Rogers: Gold Miners - Business Insider [PAR] Jul 7, 2013 ... Mark Twain said the definition of a gold mine is 'a hole in the ground with a liar 
standing at the top of the hole,' because there's just so many of... [DOC] [TLE] A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top - Mining Swindles [PAR] Mark Twain is supposed to have said A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at 
... of mining - I mean a true history; why does he not give us all the secret deals,... [DOC] [TLE] Witness Post: Mark Twain's Gold Mine | Henry E. Hooper [PAR] Mark Twain is believed to have said:A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a 
liar ... We wanted to protect ourselves from the liars who might be malingering 
nearby. ....

Question: Mark Twain defined it as a hole in the groud with a liar standing at the top
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