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History is a child building a sand castle by the sea and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Change he called a pathway up and down, and this determines the birth of the world.

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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