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Children need models rather than critics.

Children Models Critics
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

World Saints Conquerors Poets
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Virtues Defects Character Live
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Debate Question Settling
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasure Emotion Writer Reader
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Choose Marriage Friend Woman
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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Convince Arguments Persuade Own
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness Loving People Deserve
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You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

You Talk Someone Open
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Retract Opinions Love Truth
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There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Admiration Daughter Knowledge
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age Intelligent Qualities Wisdom
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Fixed Opinions Constant Feelings
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Life Thinking Conscious Soul
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Time Truth Moments Hostile
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Writer Engineer Human soul
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education Weapon Effects Aimed
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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Music's Calm Beast Man
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Ideas Powerful Enemies
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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

God Hate Happiness Love
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

Believe People Understand Love
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You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Education Learn Protect Pen
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Art is an elastic sort of love.

Art Elastic Love
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I did take the blows of life, but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

Life Dignity Love Humanity
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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

Victory Wrong World You
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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Laughing Sensation Feeling Principally
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius

Common sense Instinct Genius
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Tomorrow Enjoyed Today
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Victories Gain Beat Politeness
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Scarce Truth Supply Demand
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense

Genius Elegant Common sense
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply

Easy Experience Hard Apply
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Troubles Life Saying yes No
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Learning Libraries Wisdom Everywhere
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowing so many things that ain't so.

Trouble Folks Ignorance Knowing
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Originality Writer Achieve Judgment
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Evidence Intelligence Surprised Nothing
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Man Tempted Dishonest
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Wisdom Experience Reflecton Ignorance
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Opinions Formed Caution Changed
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Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Liberty Chastity Lost Purity
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Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Honest Yourself Lie Everyone
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I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

Think Tastes Change Older
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Fame Tool Hands Young
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I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Heart broken Fun Someone
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Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Hope Life Believe Love
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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Give People Want Need
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Recognizing Power Diminish Own
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If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

You Run Crawl Find
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If you can't do something smart, do something right
You Something Smart Right
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