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• Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
• Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so…
• It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where…
• Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
• If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
• We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
• Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a…
• Every dogma has its day.
• The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a…

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