Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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