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

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

Twain, Mark on experience
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

Tagore, Rabindranath on truth
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adventure
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"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."

Hesse, Hermann on wisdom
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"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

Hesse, Hermann on love
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"

Thackeray, William M. on injury   

"I would rather make my name than inherit it."

Thackeray, William M. on inheritance
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"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

Thackeray, William M. on laughter   

"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

Thackeray, William M. on motivation
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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

Thackeray, William M. on attitude
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"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?"

Thackeray, William M. on perseverance
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"Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs."

Thackeray, William M. on friends and friendship   

"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed."

Schulz, Charles M. on exercise   

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."

Schulz, Charles M. on humankind
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"The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere."

Schulz, Charles M. on sincerity
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."

Schulz, Charles M. on blame
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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on worry
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."

Franklin, Benjamin on farming and farmers
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