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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

"Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time."

"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."
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"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."

"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."
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