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“ Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help. ”

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Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half was the first one I encountered.Another was, Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

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Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

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I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

~ John Knowles