It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAINIn 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.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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