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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Acid Angry Harm Hurt Vessel
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Brace Character Courage Curious Moral Physical World
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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Decision Humour Mind
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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Beginning Change Hate Man Patriotism Success
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Appreciation Happiness Joy One Liner Value
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Animal Cruel Man Pain Pleasure
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Book Desire Imagination People Read
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Argument Difference Excuse Fools
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Acknowledgement Authority Commit Fault Guard Opportunity Throw
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Education God Humour Idiot Practice School
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Country Deserve Government Help Patriotism Support
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Coward Deep Lying One Liner Truth
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Humour Man Savage World
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Fiction Possible Stick StrAngry Truth
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Give Up Human Nature Humour Smoking Time World

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