If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
MARK TWAINIn the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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