"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
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"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
-Jane Austen
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
-Mignon McLaughlin
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"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."
-Ogden Nash
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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
-Woody Allen
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