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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

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Funny how the new things are the old things.

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

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