One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.