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| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever |
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| A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. |
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| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
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| A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself |
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| Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures. |
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| I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt |
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| If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done. |
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| If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. |
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| If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. |
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| In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. |
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| It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. |
| Forgiveness; Mistakes |
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| Justice is a terrible but necessary thing |
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| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. |
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| Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants |
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| Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. |
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