Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.Samuel Butler
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no.
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