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Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
All men would be cowards if they durst.
To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.


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