The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad. - Sally Hawkins

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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

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