Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
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To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
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Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired.
Samuel Johnson
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
Diana Wynne Jones
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
Diana Wynne Jones
If people like being deceived — and this can hardly be doubted — there can rarely have been a time during which they can have had more of the wish than now. The literary, scientific and religious worlds vie with one another in trying to gratify the public.
Samuel (novelist Butler
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)
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