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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

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The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States.

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