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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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Agony Alone Conflict Good Heart Human Itself Make Problem Worth Write
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Captain Her She Soul
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Gather Rose Withered
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Badly Enough Money Want Work
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Advice Even Fool Good Inability Know Make Now Own Take What
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Brother Dood Get Have One Rich Success Time
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Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem

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