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 Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.  Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own. Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command. It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. I've had a wonderful evening . . . but this wasn't it. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. 
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