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"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
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