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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Price Reason Try Yourself
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Best Honesty Talk Truth
Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Animal Friendship Myself Service
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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Dog Friendship Himself Man Wild
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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Goodness Memories Necessary Talk Walk Woman
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Glory Man Money Poor Position Yourself
Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Motivational Spiritual
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work

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