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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
God
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
History
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
Experience
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
People
"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
God
"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
Compassion
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
Public
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
Habit
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
Woman
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
Heroism
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