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.
MARK TWAINIt takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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