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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
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The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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