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Frederick Douglass: If there is...

Frederick Douglass: If there is...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men...

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Mark Twain: A hypocritical Boston...

Mark Twain: A hypocritical Boston...

A hypocritical Boston tycoon once told Mark Twain, 'Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the top of Mount...

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Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Mark Twain: Don't go around...

Mark Twain: Don't go around...

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here...

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Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his...

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Mark Twain: History is strewn...

Mark Twain: History is strewn...

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...

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Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our...

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Mark Twain: Happiness is like...

Mark Twain: Happiness is like...

Happiness is like a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose...

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Mark Twain: I believe that...

Mark Twain: I believe that...

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

I'm glad that the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.

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Mark Twain: I never felt...

Mark Twain: I never felt...

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when...

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Mark Twain: I don't like...

Mark Twain: I don't like...

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both...

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Mark Twain: Life would be...

Mark Twain: Life would be...

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach...

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Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest...

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G K Chesterton: Man seems to...

G K Chesterton: Man seems to...

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping...

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G K Chesterton: When you have...

G K Chesterton: When you have...

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us...

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G K Chesterton: Man does not...

G K Chesterton: Man does not...

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of...

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G K Chesterton: We are justified...

G K Chesterton: We are justified...

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good...

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G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

G K Chesterton: How beautiful it...

How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.

Source: Attributed.
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G K Chesterton: What affects men...

G K Chesterton: What affects men...

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather...

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