It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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  Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

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  Children are the keys of paradise.

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  Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling

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  There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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  People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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  Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.