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Professor Kimble could tell of women who served 50 men in a day and night and sent their earnings to children who didn't know where the money came from.

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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

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I made notes with a lead pencil, wrote letters and college papers with a stub steel pen dipped into a bottle of Waterman ink.

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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

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I had a feeling the name Carl would mean one more Poor Swede Boy while the name Charles filled the mouth with fun and had 'em guessing.

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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

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If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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