It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

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Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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