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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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Argument Beat Experience People Stupidity
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Bank Banker Fellow Lend Rain Shine Sun Sunshine Umbrella
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
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Confidence Humour Man Philosophy Religion Suspect Teaching
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Dog Dreamss Gentleman Heaven Hope Man One Liner
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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Comedy Drama Impossible Interesting Life Tragedy
Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Book Praise Read
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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Enemy Friendship Heart Togetherness Work
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Majority Reform Time Wisdom Yourself
Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Complete Happiness Inspirational Life Live One Liner Wisdom Worth
I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Happen Humour Life Live Terrible
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
I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Book Criticize Except Hate
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Education Knowledge Learning
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Brain Fish Heart Love Romance
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

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