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gives preach virtues wealth
Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.
asking becomes foolish questions stopped until
There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.
dream happiness lived today tomorrow vision yesterday
Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
change people wet
The only people who like change are wet babies.
afforded cannot feels ill speaks tolerance
When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.
elbow fails imagination language teach thoughts waiting words
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
kinds people quiet speakers-and-speaking talk
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
cheat conditions deeper life redeeming
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
across common convey empires languages life mental period precious safely sail shipwreck suffered time treasures words
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
discovered educated finally man nobody questions
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
cannon mouth safer woman women
The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.
speakers-and-speaking
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
erased spoken word words written
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
ideals ideas thoughts-and-thinking
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.