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Tears were to...

Tears were to...

Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.

Source: The Naked Civil...

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Keeping up with...

Keeping up with...

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I...

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The easiest thing...

The easiest thing...

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't...

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The great artist...

The great artist...

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Source: In

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In the march...

In the march...

In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective...

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Sports do not...

Sports do not...

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Source: In Sports in America, by...

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You are no...

You are no...

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how...

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The old system...

The old system...

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact...

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They wouldn't be...

They wouldn't be...

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched...

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There are only...

There are only...

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander...

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Once you touch...

Once you touch...

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to...

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What is it...

What is it...

What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or...

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A conservative is...

A conservative is...

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Source: In Webster's...

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He worked like...

He worked like...

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the...

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I believe that...

I believe that...

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are...

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The truly ambitious...

The truly ambitious...

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the...

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Good character is...

Good character is...

Good character is like a rubber ball -
Thrown down hard - it bounces right back.
Good reputation is like a...

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Middleness is the...

Middleness is the...

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
-- Charles...

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Showing up at...

Showing up at...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start...

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The more immoral...

The more immoral...

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

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