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«Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value»
«Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
lying-in, lying in wait, worthwhile
«Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
diligently, examine, falsities, falsity, refutation, refutations
«Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.»
«Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
blossoms, faculty, Faculty of, The Faculty
«Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath»
«He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.»
«Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may.»
«Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.»
«In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
boarding school, boards, idiots, in the first place, school board
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