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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1868

Died: February 7th, 1952

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