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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
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The truth hurts, but silence kills.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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