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"A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age."

"Everything I do you blame on me."

"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

"Beware of assumptions! Whatever you ''assume'' to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you."

"The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so."

"The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden."

"Backbone beats wishbone every time."

"The men -- the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country."

"Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life."

"If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time."

"Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man."

"If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on."

"It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else."

"Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure."

"The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it"

"Be both the gardener and the rose."