Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them destroyed their fields burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power.
Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
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