"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.“
-Charles Caleb Colton
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-Galina Vishnevskaya
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-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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