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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne, Advice on acting

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Emily Dickinson

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
- Franklin P. Jones

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
- Bob Marley

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
- Seneca

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- Kahlil Gibran

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote

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