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.
MARK TWAINPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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