Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
MARK TWAINPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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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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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 right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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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 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.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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