He cast off his friends as a ...

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas\'d he could whistle them back.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
 Oliver Goldsmith

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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Silence is become his mother tongue.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
 Oliver Goldsmith