People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to...

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to...

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every...

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every...

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to...

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to...

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in...

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in...

Memory is the thing you forget with

Memory is the thing you forget with

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in...

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was...

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was...