Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- All diseases run into one, old age.
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Every artist was first an amateur.