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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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