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Mark Twain: To be good...

Mark Twain: To be good...

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler -- and no trouble.

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal...

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Mark Twain: To be busy...

Mark Twain: To be busy...

To be busy is man's only happiness.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910),...

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Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: We never become...

Mark Twain: We never become...

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been...

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Aesop: Please all, and...

Aesop: Please all, and...

Please all, and you will please none.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and...

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G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is...

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G K Chesterton: The sane man...

G K Chesterton: The sane man...

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the...

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G K Chesterton: How you think...

G K Chesterton: How you think...

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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G K Chesterton: There is no...

G K Chesterton: There is no...

There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in...

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G K Chesterton: A large section...

G K Chesterton: A large section...

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...

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S J Perelman: He bit his...

S J Perelman: He bit his...

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite...

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E B White: Computing machines perhaps...

E B White: Computing machines perhaps...

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of...

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E B White: Analyzing humor is...

E B White: Analyzing humor is...

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of...

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E B White: Be obscure clearly....

E B White: Be obscure clearly....

Be obscure clearly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...

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Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or...

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Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

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E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

[The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or...

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Anatole France: It is human...

Anatole France: It is human...

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Source: In Webster's...

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