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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.: Frank Crane
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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
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There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.: Nancy Spain
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Praise youth and it will prosper.: Irish Proverb
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.: Anthony Walton
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.: Ellen Metcalf
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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