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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

G. K. Chesterton

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Søren Kierkegaard

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Florence Nightingale

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.