The man who does not read good books has no advant... -Mark Twain

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started....
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt....
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not....
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever....
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven....
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven....
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing....
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it....
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about....
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts....

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death....
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody....
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast....
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grap...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them....
To seek the highest good is to live well....
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Hea...
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good....
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good....
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another....