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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Any Die Different Luckier
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Human Scared
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Accept Time Me
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Life Present
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simple
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Ability Attitude Important Success
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Miles Shadow
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Say Eyes
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Business Capacities
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Timid Impossible
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Vices Wine
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Life Burden Finding That
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Cure Prayer Sovereign Worry
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life Living Make Say
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Endure Fact Gain Happiness
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

After Chain Life Link
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Characters Endured Hell Hereafter
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Argument Best Deserves Existence
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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My aim is to affect people with comedy in a good way.

Good People Affect Aim
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It is important to make your audience believe what they see. People will always have different opinions on things.

Important Audience Always Opinion
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Speak Softly Far Better
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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