"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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