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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. |
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. |
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era. |
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The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's |
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. |
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it |
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The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high |
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The most useless are those who never change through the years. |
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. |
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which |
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings |
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The same kind, beaming smile that children could warm their hands at. |
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. |
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Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others |
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make |
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. |
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. |
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We are all failures - at least, the best of us are. |
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