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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

John Steinbeck

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War

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