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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 27th, 1902

Died: December 20th, 1968

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