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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.


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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.



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Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.



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