“The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.”
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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