Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

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Conceit spoils the finest genius.

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...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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