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"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another." -Ellen Goodman
"When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts." -Anzia Yezierska
"Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." -Leigh Hunt
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation." -Kin Hubbard
"I know nothing about sex because I was always married." -Zsa Zsa Gabor
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." -H. L. Mencken
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." -Robert Heinlein
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