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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Change Politics Reason
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Education Interfere Knowledge Privacy School
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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Acknowledgement Authority Commit Fault Guard Opportunity Throw
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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Comedy Drama Impossible Interesting Life Tragedy
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Charm Desire Forbidden Speak
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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Animal Dog Fellow Grace Speak
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Brain Fish Heart Love Romance
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
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Argument Difference Excuse Fools
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Alcohol Book Funny Genius Water Wine Writing
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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Finding Honesty Man
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Adsence Courage Fear Master Resistance
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
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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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

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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