You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their … - Sophocles

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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Sophocles

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

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The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.

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