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• A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the…
• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
• It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your…
• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact…
• A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
• A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
• Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
• The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two…
• If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing…
• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some…
• Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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