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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -
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Josh Billings
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"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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