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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Adventure Boots Happen Pretty Sure
Brains first and then Hard Work.
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Brain Business Hard Work Motivational One Liner
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
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Case Door Drop Friendship Sure
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Bother Hear Listen Positive Underestimate Value
It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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Always Friendship Relationship Want
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
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Break Up Come Forever Goodbye Heart Stay Togetherness
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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Amateur Chess Desire Gut Poetry
Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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Brain Character Human Nature
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Book Introduction Perhaps Stop
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Feeling Funny Hard Thinking
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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Chess Grace Impossible
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Happiness Love Person Step
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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Beneath Bridge Lean Peace River Slip Stand Sudden Watch
If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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Away Bird High Lean Live Winds
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Deserve Effort Liar Name
Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Lead Life

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