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"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on advice
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on enthusiasm
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, John on beauty
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"Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries."

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I'm male from the United States and made my book on 11th April 2007.

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I am a fifth-generation Californian, and--contrary to popular belief--California is not a 600-mile long beach. Agriculture is a major industry here, and I grow walnuts and manage a related processing and marketing company. I love to write--both poetry and prose--and I love rose gardening, working out, travel, jazz music, and American history.

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