I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day
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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
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Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
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Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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Adventure is not outside a man it is within.
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Adventure is not outside; it is within.
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Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
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It's obviously the way the districts are drawn. They're gerrymandered so that you have safe Republican and Democratic seats.
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