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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― From Here to Eternity
― From Here to Eternity
“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
― A Child's Garden of Verses
― A Child's Garden of Verses
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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