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Quote from “Charles A. Dana, Recollections Of The Civil War (1898), P. 274.”

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

Honesty and frankness
make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

Kent M. Keith

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Quote from “Advice To A Girl” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/125047

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

- Audrey Hepburn

Quote from “Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry In Complete Poems (1950)”

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner

Carl Sandburg

Quote from “The Cremation Of Sam McGee” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/72134

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

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Quote from “Eleonora”

Those who dream by day
are cognizant of many things
which escape those
who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

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