If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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