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 Some day they will know what I mean.  The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist. I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that "ancient institution," the old one. Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance. For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. When you're all dressed up and no place to go. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely, most politely, Flatter and impress the lady Most politely, most politely, Humbly beg and humbly sue, She may deign to look on you. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. Sweets to the sweet; farewell! Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. 
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