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«A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.»
Author: Greek proverb
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About:
Age,
Society
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Keywords:
Great Society,
grows,
old,
plant,
shade,
shaded,
shading,
shall,
sit,
sit in,
society,
trees
«Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to»
Author: John Ed Pearce
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About:
Home
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Keywords:
back,
Back to,
get back,
grow,
grow up,
home,
homing,
leave,
old,
place,
take home,
to get,
wanting
«It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.»
Author: Marilyn Ferguson
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Keywords:
afraid,
between,
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
dryer,
dryers,
hold,
hold on,
in-between,
in love,
old,
or so,
place,
so much,
trapeze,
trapezes,
ways
«I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.»
Author: Steven Wright
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Comedian)
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Keywords:
hotel,
hotels,
Hotel I,
In a,
last,
letter,
lettered,
Night,
old,
really,
send for,
send in,
send out,
Send Up,
sent,
stayed,
The Wake,
to the letter,
wake,
waked,
wake up,
waking up,
woken
«I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
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Poet)
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Keywords:
any old,
a thousand,
by memory,
If I were a,
memories,
old,
that year,
the year after,
thousand,
were,
years
«It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Blessings
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Keywords:
afford,
afforded,
affording,
any old,
blessings,
Friends,
old,
stupid,
stupider,
stupidest,
Them,
to be
«I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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About:
Christmas
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Keywords:
bells,
Better Days,
carol,
carols,
Christmas,
Christmases,
Christmas Day,
earth,
familiar,
familiars,
good will,
heard,
old,
old earth,
on earth,
peace,
Peace On Earth,
play,
repeat,
sweet,
The Word,
wild,
Wilder,
wilds,
wild man,
word
«He dies before he is old who is wise before his day»
«Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
at all,
better,
diamonds,
let,
none,
old,
particular,
Particulars,
secondhand,
The Diamond,
The Diamonds,
too
«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
clothes,
curiosities,
curiosity,
endurance,
eye,
few,
good-humored,
good humor,
How to,
humor,
humored,
humors,
Know how,
old,
plain,
plainer,
plainest,
plain clothes,
Plain People,
qualification,
qualifications,
shod,
shoes,
silence,
speech,
take,
too much,
vast,
Vaster,
vastest