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

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Family

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."
Fear

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
Age

"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
Personal

"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
Fate

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
Anger

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."
Death

"Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught."
Time
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"If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future- staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?"
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Personal Development

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
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Personal Development

"I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older- I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid."
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Personal Development

"Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act."
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Personal Development

"Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!"
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Personal Development

"Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress."
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Personal Development

"I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that."
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Personal Development

"If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style."
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Personal Development

"Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality."
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Personal Development

"As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child."
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Personal Development
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