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Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

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It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

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The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea.

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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

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Not all clever words are true.... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

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You were courted and got married in the magic world, but you had your baby in the real one.

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When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

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Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

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They are the most painful tears in the world... the tears of the aged... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

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Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

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Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

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Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

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