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- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,…
- You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
- I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that…
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner…
- Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
- 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.
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They…
- We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,…
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
- great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
- There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
- That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
- The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle