• Virtues

  A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  4.1 · 43 votes · 197 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

  3.2 · 60 votes · 40 reads

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• Society

  A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

  3.8 · 24 votes · 58 reads

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• Nature

  All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

  4.2 · 51 votes · 187 reads

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• Society

  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

  4.3 · 63 votes · 94 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 190 reads

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• Feelings

  Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

  3.0 · 15 votes · 60 reads

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• Art and Culture

  As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

  4.1 · 28 votes · 5 reads

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• Nature

  Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  3.8 · 38 votes · 119 reads

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• Feelings

  Be good and you will be lonely.

  3.9 · 48 votes · 141 reads

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• Virtues

  Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

  4.0 · 25 votes · 148 reads

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• Society

  Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

  4.7 · 18 votes · 165 reads

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• Various

  By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  4.5 · 39 votes · 141 reads

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• Society

  Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

  4.8 · 32 votes · 197 reads

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• Virtues

  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

  4.2 · 24 votes · 197 reads

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• Feelings

  Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

  3.3 · 15 votes · 26 reads

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• Various

  Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

  3.7 · 13 votes · 200 reads

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• Feelings

  Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  4.8 · 42 votes · 36 reads

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• Various

  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.

  4.3 · 18 votes · 138 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

  4.9 · 52 votes · 185 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

  4.0 · 24 votes · 162 reads

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• Virtues

  Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

  3.8 · 7 votes · 106 reads

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• Virtues

  Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  4.4 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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• Society

  Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  4.6 · 38 votes · 31 reads

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• Various

  Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

  4.9 · 26 votes · 48 reads

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• Feelings

  Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  4.0 · 37 votes · 172 reads

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• Nature

  He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

  4.1 · 40 votes · 80 reads

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• Science and Technology

  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.

  4.8 · 41 votes · 154 reads

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• Various

  He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

  3.9 · 53 votes · 73 reads

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• Society

  Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  4.0 · 28 votes · 46 reads

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• Society

  His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.''

  4.6 · 15 votes · 168 reads

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• Time

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

  3.7 · 64 votes · 95 reads

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• Virtues

  Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.

  4.7 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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• Virtues

  Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

  4.2 · 57 votes · 28 reads

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• Government and Politics

  I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

  4.7 · 28 votes · 176 reads

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• Society

  I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  4.4 · 18 votes · 116 reads

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• Various

  I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  4.3 · 36 votes · 58 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  4.2 · 22 votes · 171 reads

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• Society

  I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

  5.0 · 49 votes · 0 reads

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• Society

  I do not like work even when someone else does it.

  4.0 · 48 votes · 59 reads

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• Humankind8 of their quotes
• Truth7 of their quotes
• Death6 of their quotes
• Education6 of their quotes
• Work6 of their quotes
• Religion5 of their quotes