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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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