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 If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.  I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. We live on the leash of our senses. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance. Common sense is very uncommon. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. A dog wags its tail with its heart. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Somebody's boring me; I think it's me. A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security. If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard to find and difficult. Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. 
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