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Why a duck?

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

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The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you

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Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

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Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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