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“Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.”
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“An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things — all things — are yet possible.”
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.”
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“... throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.”
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“... not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
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“... we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.”
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“There are many changes in the weather of a day.”
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“First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”