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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. – Mark Twain

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain

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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – Cyril Connolly

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – Author Unknown

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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. – Yiddish Proverb

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I really want to live in New York. Thats the city of my dreams. – Joel Kinnaman

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