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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.


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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.



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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.



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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.



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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.



As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.





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