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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
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Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
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Laurence J. Peter
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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Madame Swetchine
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Alfred North Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Donald G. Smith
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.
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William Safire
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care.
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Maasai Proverb
Daylight follows a dark night.
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Bertrand Russell
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
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