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In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

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The best teacher of children ... is one who is essentially childlike.

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We must respect the other fellow's religion ... to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful.

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In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

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A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

- Baltasar Gracian

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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Elbert Hubbard

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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