Every generation

Every generation
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
  

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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.
Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.