It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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. . . they had courage without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches.
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
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