"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."

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"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

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"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."

Virgil, Roman Poet

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Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

John Dryden, English Poet

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"What is now proved was once only imagined."

William Blake, English Poet

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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."

Alan Alda, American Actor

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"I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me."

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"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."

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"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."

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"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

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"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."

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"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

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"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."

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"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."

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"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."

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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."

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"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."

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