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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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