"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

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"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."

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"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds."

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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

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"Heaven for climate, Hell for company."

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"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."

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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

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"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

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"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."

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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

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"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."

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"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

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"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

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"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."

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"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."

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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

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"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

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"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."

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".. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

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"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

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