Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
Mark TwainThe old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
Mark TwainLook at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
Mark TwainThere is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
Mark Twain