"An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble."
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"It is pleasant to recall past troubles."
"Trouble's made us kin."
"I have no trouble sleeping."
"When friends are in trouble, America Helps."
"I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar."
"Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble."
"The things I never say never get me into trouble."
"Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it."
"to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another."
"The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be."
"She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."
"When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon."
"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead."
"In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends."
"When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble."
"People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications."
"Trouble Springs From Idleness."
"There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes"
"...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?"