The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.

Found on Bartleby.com (a letter to George Bainton), September 15, 1888
Mark Twain, a.k.a, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), Wikipedia

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