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 I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.  You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket. 
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