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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
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-- Yiddish Proverb Secondary Schools
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Secondary Schools
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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-- Carl Zwanzig Secondary Schools
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
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-- Winston Churchill Secondary Schools
