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 That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.  I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent. We must like what we have when we don't have what we like. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations. There are worse words than cuss words; there are words that hurt. The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience. Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it. It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well. If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee, As the scent to the rose, are those memories to me. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. History, a distillation of rumor Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant. One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. It is our business to go as we are impelled. He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. 
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