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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both."
"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
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