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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hands #language #rolls #slang #sleeves

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#gift #having #know #never #next

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#doomed #equivalent #failure #human #human actions

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#career #definite #filling #i #misty

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#best work #difficult #most #work #you

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#chicago #decided #eight #fireman #go

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#become #been #eye #field #had

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #ambiguity #better #candid #felt

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#become #book #coming #how #i