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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind…
— John J. Pershing
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Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
— Retief Goosen
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This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it…
— James Gilmour
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...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason…
— James Gilmour
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at…
— Margaret Oliphant
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After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my…
— Arnon Goldfinger
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By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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