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Children are all foreigners.

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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