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"Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying."

"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."

"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."

"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."
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"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."

"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."

"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."

"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
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