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• A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he…
• It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of…
• Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
• He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
• Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
• Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no…
• I wonder why we hate the past so.
• The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends…
• It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair…
• In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and…
• How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
• Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

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