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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

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As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

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Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the way to advance their interests. We do not need to beg people to trade with us - as long as we have something that people want, of a quality they expect and at a price they are prepared to pay.

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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

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With a heavy load and a long journey

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