A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAINIf you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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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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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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It 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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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