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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Mark Twain

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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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
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
Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Deep Healing Lost Mind Missing One Liner
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Dog Dreamss Gentleman Heaven Hope Man One Liner
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Action Hustle Inspirational One Liner Success Work Hard
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Eat Frog Funny Humour Morning
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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