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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."

"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."

"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."

"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."

"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."

"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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