You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringnessMark Twain
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Mark Twain
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.
Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
Mark Twain
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain
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