If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.