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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.

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Child! Do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

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What are you doing for the rest of your life, North and South and East and West of your life, I have only one request of your life. That you spend it all with me.

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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

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Nothing will work unless you do.

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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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Life loves the liver of it.

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