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"Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

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Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

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