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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

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If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

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