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“Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty.”
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“Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?”
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“January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.”
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“Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.”
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“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.”
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“Tea provides us with one gate to the infinite.”
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“Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.”
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“Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.”