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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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