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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect."

"I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of."

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."
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