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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.

Mark Twain

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
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
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Animal Cruel Man Pain Pleasure
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Book Desire Imagination People Read
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Convince Fools People Reality
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Funny Humour Inspirational Tomorrow
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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Fun Funny Human Nature Humour Kiding
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
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
All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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Break Up Hell Leaving Resignation
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Die Inspirational Live Sorry
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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Appearance Doubt Humour Mouth Remove Stupidity
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Brace Character Courage Curious Moral Physical World
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Charm Desire Forbidden Speak
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
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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History One Liner Past Repeat Rhyme

Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.

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