If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Mark TwainWhen politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.
Mark TwainMore than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Mark Twain