He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
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- Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- Successful crimes alone are justified.
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