I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
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Posted by: Luisa Marcangeli
The truth is that men don't think: a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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If you want to inflict a cruel punishment to a young man, oblige him to keep a diary every year.
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Posted by: Armando Laturo
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat.
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Posted by: Ruggero Raba
The noise doesn't prove anything! Sometimes a hen makes so much noise as if it laid an asteroid.
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Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
A journalist is someone who distinguishes the truth from the falsehood and publishes the falsehood.
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Posted by: Maria Elena Caprara
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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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Posted by: Emiliano Ercoli
Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
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Posted by: 0kiika0
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He was pretty thoroughly bewildered; he had come home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting to find everybody wild with joy over his return; and instead had got the cold shoulder and a jail. The promise and the fulfilment differed so widely that the effect was stunning; he could not decide whether it was most tragic or most grotesque. He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.
from the book "" by Mark Twain
Posted by: 0kiika0
"They? Oh, dost think, sir, that they have servants?" The little prince contemplated the little pauper gravely a moment, then said: "And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attireth them when they rise?"
"None, sir. Would'st have them take off their garment, and sleep without? like the beasts?"
"Their garment! Have they but one?"
"Ah, good your worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each."
from the book "" by Mark Twain