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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Deserve Honor Wisdom
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
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Debt One Liner Owe Pay Worry
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
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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Acknowledgement Authority Commit Fault Guard Opportunity Throw
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Effect Let Go Pause Time
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Cease Exist Illusion Life Live
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
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Argument Difference Excuse Fools
Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Alone Goodness Life Loneliness One Liner Reality
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Education Interfere Knowledge Privacy School
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Democracy Difference Government Vote
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Education Knowledge Learning
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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Absorb Book Goodness Mystery Room Skin Wisdom
I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Healing Inspirational Life One Liner Trouble Worry

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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