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• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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• If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. -- E.M. Ciora
• Since we remember only our ordeals, it is ultimately the sick, the persecuted, the victims in every realm who will have lived to the best advantage.
  The others - the lucky ones - have a life, of course, but not the memory of a life....
• Edna: How do you expect us to teach with these supplies?
  Well, this pointer's so old, it's worn down to a nub....
• It's easy to forgive someone for being wrong; it's much harder to forgive them for being right.
• You must have been warned about letting the golden hours slip by
  but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. -- James M. Barrie...
• I'll have to get over this sooner or later. Why not now? --Louis Wu
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. -- Heinrich Heine