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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description


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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.



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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.



I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.



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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.





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