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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.


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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.



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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.



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