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“Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.”
Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
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“I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.”
Source : John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books
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“Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.”
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“Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.”
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“So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.”
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“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
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“When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!”
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“Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.”