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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

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First fight. Then fiddle.

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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

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If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

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I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

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