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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.

Mark Twain

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
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Humour Letter Time Writing
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Create Disappointment Father Heaven Humour Man Monkey
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
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Humour Religion Wisdom
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Bite Dod Funny Human Nature Loyalty Man
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Combination Happiness Impossible One Liner Sanity
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Adsence Courage Fear Master Resistance
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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Finding Hate Humour People Travel
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Die Friendship Trouble Worth
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Honesty Lying One Liner Remember Truth
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Book Desire Imagination People Read
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
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.
MARK TWAIN

Absorb Book Goodness Mystery Room Skin Wisdom

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