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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Baby Children Happiness
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Riches Safety Sea
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Book Depend Fun Reading
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Age Book Reading Sufficient
The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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Cheerfulness Endured Forgotten Harmful Lesson Remember
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Book Countries Country World
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Cutting House Names
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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