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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
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The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
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The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
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