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" An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. "
Rudyard Kipling
Clergy
Mom
Mother
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" A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. "
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" All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. "
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" If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. "
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" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "
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" For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. "
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" When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. "
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" If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! "
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Mother
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" A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. "
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" Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. "
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Worth
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" If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. "
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Me
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" Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. "
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West
Too Much
" A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. "
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Woman
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" The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. "
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Travel
Country
" Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. "
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Me
Animals
" San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. "
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People
Women
Insane
" Everyone is more or less mad on one point. "
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Point
Less
Mad
" I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. "
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Best
Trouble
Much
" I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. "
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Never
Desire
" Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. "
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Nature
Borrow
Yourself
" And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' "
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Heart
Rude
World
" God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. "
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Mother's Day
God
" He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. "
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He
Purple
Himself
" If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' "
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Turn
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Us
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" The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. "
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Clever
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Million
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