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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
Norman Douglas
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Norman Douglas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 8
Died: 1952
Died: February 9
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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