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"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."
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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."
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"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."
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"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
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"When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'"
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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."
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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
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"Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don't usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day."
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"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship
"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership
"Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech."
Communication
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Wisdom
"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
Politics
"But for this book we could not know right from wrong."
Ethics
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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