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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

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His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

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