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 TWAINClassic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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