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• I'm going to die". (...) "I shall manage. Don't you worry about me," Jack said between clenched teeth.
  Joy shook her head. "I think it can be better than that....
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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• We had it so bad when I was young, we lived on a white line down the middle of the road.
• I only wish that I were what I was when I wished that I would be what I am now.
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  One day, the surveyors came to inform him that they had just discovered that he lived in New Hampshire, not Vermont....
• I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream
  and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....