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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky Incident
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.: Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), D-Day, page 577
Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing.: Billy Rose
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.): Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), Poem "To a Louse" - verse 8
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
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