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Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer. Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit. Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later. Life is a flower of which love is the honey. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Don't offer me advice, give me money. Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
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