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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine."

"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."

"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."

"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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