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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. - Japanese Proverb

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer

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