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Henry James
“I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
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