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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
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Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
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Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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Between religion's ''this is'' and poetry's ''but suppose this is,'' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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