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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Mark Twain
    “Use the right word, not its second cousin.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: on-writing
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    Robert Mitchum
    “No matter what you do, do your best at it. If your going to be a bum, be the best bum there is.”
    ― Robert Mitchum
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
    tags: horror, lovecraft
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    Ken Follett
    “A waiter appeared, and Gus said: “Bring coffee for my guests, please, and a plate of ham sandwiches.” He deliberately did not ask them what they wanted. He had seen Woodrow Wilson act like this with people he wanted to intimidate.”
    ― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants
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    Woodrow Wilson
    “No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Little things affect little minds.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, romance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    George Carlin
    “I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: cliché, humor, individuality, retort
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    Frank Zappa
    “Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
    Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: hair, humor, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: classic-insult, retort
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  • #23
    Billy Wilder
    “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
    ― Billy Wilder
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  • #24
    “Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling—don't.”
    ― Patsy Cline
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    Scott McCloud
    “...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.”
    ― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
    tags: art, artists, character-description, character-design, characters, comics
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: oscar, sarcasm, wilde, wit
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  • #27
    George Bernard Shaw
    “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
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  • #28
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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