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.
MARK TWAINEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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