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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Rupert Brooke

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Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

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Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Mrs. Sigourney

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Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

Author Unknown

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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

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Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise.

Peter's Almanac

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Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

John Anthony Ciardi

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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

George Eliot

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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann von Goethe

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Huxley

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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

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History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

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It's always too early to quit.

Norman Vincent Peale

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Helen Keller

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Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do.

Casino

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Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

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