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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

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
Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Alone Goodness Life Loneliness One Liner Reality
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Life Live Owe World
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Ambition Dreamss Greatness Hurt People Try
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
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Beat Deep Imagination One Liner Reality Win
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
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
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Argument Difference Excuse Fools
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 do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Born Dead Death Fear Inconvenience Inspirational Suffering
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
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
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
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Die Inspirational Live Sorry
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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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