We cannot all hope tocombine the pleasing qualitie — Homero
We cannot all hope tocombine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,— / Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; / Another race the following spring supplies: / They fall successive, and successive rise.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
Marlene Dietrich