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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

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We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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