"My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall."
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"When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends."
"The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules."
"One foote is better then two crutches."
"Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches)."
"I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like."