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• People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
• One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
• Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
• A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.
• It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
• The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
• A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch…
• The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
• There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
• If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
• The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely,…
• Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and,…

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