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- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two…
- We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is…
- You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing…
- Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what…
- I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
- The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly…
- Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good…
- Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
- I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
- Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is…
- Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
- But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me…
- People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or…
- I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.
- We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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