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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble”
― Remy de Gourmont

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
― A.L. Collins

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When one teaches, two learn.”
― Robert Heinlein