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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
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A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
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