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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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