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 Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.  When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. - Cicero The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. - Stendhal Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden. The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude. So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it. We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace. Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. Golf is a good walk spoiled. I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. 
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