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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the cons

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. – Mark Twain

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good
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. – Mark Twain

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Cats
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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. – Stephen Carter

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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. – Harold Rosenberg

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Time takes away the grief of men. – Desiderius Erasmus

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The bride and groom — May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. – Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902

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A healthy attitude is contagious but dont wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. – Tom Stoppard

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