To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Subject:
Good
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Subject:
Learning
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In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
Subject:
Sarcasm
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People born to be hanged are safe in water.
Subject:
Advice
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: Notebooks (1935)
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Subject:
Mankind
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Subject:
Quotations
Source: Notebooks (1935)
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Subject:
Patriotism
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Subject:
Time
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Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Subject:
Mankind
Source: Following the Equator (1897)
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: Following the Equator (1897)
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Subject:
Philosophical
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Subject:
Wealth
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Subject:
Wealth
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Subject:
Advice
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Subject:
Science
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