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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Friendship

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
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It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Age

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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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