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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you read more
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it read more
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot read more
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
