A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
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