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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
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[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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