As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

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"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best."

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"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

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"That I may reach that happy time The kindly gods I pray, For are not ducks and pease in prime Upon the last of May?"

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