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| A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. | | Uncategorized | |
| A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with 300 pounds, what could he not do? It's almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English | | Uncategorized | |
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| Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. | | Ambition | |
| As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on your way to being a remarkable man. | | Uncategorized | |
| Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes | | Courage | |
| Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! | | Uncategorized | |
| Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. | | Dreams | |
| Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. | | Marriage; Men and Women; Smile | |
| Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there's a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. | | Uncategorized | |
| Fame is rot; daughters are the thing | | Fame | |
| God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. | | God; Memory | |
| Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men | | Religion | |
| He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself | | Uncategorized | |
| I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. | | Uncategorized | |
| I'm not young enough to know everything | | Knowledge | |
| I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. | | Youth | |
