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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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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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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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