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"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."

"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"

"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."

"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."

"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
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