Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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