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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man
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"An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now."
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Personal Development
"Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?"
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Personal Development
"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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Personal Development
"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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Personal Development
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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Personal Development
"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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Personal Development
"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
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Personal Development
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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Personal Development
"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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Personal Development
"The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished."
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