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• It may be those who do most, dream most.
• If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to…
• Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the…
• In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
• Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's…
• Chess is one long regret.
• In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive…
• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently…
• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of…
• Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…

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