It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Mark TwainThere's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.
Mark TwainThe church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
Mark Twain