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James Whitcomb Riley Quotes: Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!
         

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!


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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.



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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.



To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.



The ripest peach is highest on the tree

The ripest peach is highest on the tree



I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

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Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.



O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.



O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.



It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.





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