Quote #14

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

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  3. Every time you come in yelling that God damn 'Rise and Shine!' 'Rise and Shine!' I say to myself, 'How lucky dead people are!'
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  8. Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.

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