Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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All men are free and equal, in the grave. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ― John Glenn

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I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.” He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. ― Rick Riordan

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

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When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on.

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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.

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