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Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
William John Locke
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William John Locke
Age: 67 †
Born: 1863
Born: March 20
Died: 1930
Died: May 15
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Colonial Guyana
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I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
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It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.
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Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.
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Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.
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The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
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I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
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You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.
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As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
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Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
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Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
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I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
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Women are women and can't help themselves.
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Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.
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To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
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What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
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The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
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