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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
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All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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