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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. – Billy Graham

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Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. – Zora Neale Hurston

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

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