"Armor is heavy, yet it is a..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
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“Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.”
“Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.”
“A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.”
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“I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.”
“It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.”
“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”
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“Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.”
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
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