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Ernest Hemingway
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.
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Publilius Syrus
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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Cesare Pavese
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Richard Willard Armour
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Ricther
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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Longfellow
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
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Elizabeth II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Louis Blanc
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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