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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"A fool's bolt is soon shot."

"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."

"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."

"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"

"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."

"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
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