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 | "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man"s nose
begins." | |
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Found in the topic Harm.
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| "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." | |
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Found in the topic Old.
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| "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." | |
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Found in the topic Plan.
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| "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man?s upper
chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them
all." | |
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Found in the topic Lever.
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| "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let
it fall." | |
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Found in the topic Speak.
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| "Trouble creates a capacity to handle it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in
the one where they sprang up." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "To have doubted one"s own first principles is the mark of a
civilized man." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at
anchor." | |
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Found in the topic Heaven.
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| "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, At a touch; nay,
you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and
full at evening." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us." | |
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Found in the topic Ahead.
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| "Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - And the fools know
it." | |
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Found in the topic Controversy.
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| "Age, like distance lends a double charm." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Man has his will ? but woman has her way." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color." | |
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Found in the topic Soldier.
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| "A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could
not improve." | |
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Found in the topic Instinct.
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| "A moment?s insight is sometimes worth a life?s experience." | |
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Found in the topic Creative.
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| "The brightest blades grow dim with rust, The fairest meadow white
with snow." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the
thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the
tones but in the echoes of our hearts." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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