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 Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.  We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want? Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. We not only need to be willing to give, but also to be open to receiving from others. - On Hope Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it. Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy. We all fear what we don't know-it's natural. The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy. A joy that's shared is a joy made double. In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh. I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide." Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity. Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life. A friend must not be injured, even in jest. - Syrus 
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