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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."

"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."

"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."

"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."

"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."

"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
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"It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit."

"There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all."

"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."

"Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist."

"You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin."

"What good is an "I LOVE YOU If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?"

"The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery."

"It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead."

"Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different."
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