It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Subject:
Perseverance   
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Subject:
Animal   
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Subject:
Language   
Americans   
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Subject:
Humor   
Philosophical   
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
Subject:
Honesty   
Work:
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Subject:
Discovery   
Books   
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
Subject:
Birth   
Morality   
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Subject:
Statistics   
Lies   
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Subject:
Hate   
Travel   
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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.
Subject:
Life   
Death   
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Subject:
Humor   
Adversity   
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author.
Subject:
Humor   
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Subject:
Education   
Sarcasm   
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Subject:
Youth   
Pessimism   
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Subject:
Language   
English   
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Subject:
Mankind   
Animal   
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Subject:
Mankind   
Coward   
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Subject:
Sports & Competition   
Golf   
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There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Subject:
Cruel   
Race   
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Subject:
Honesty   
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