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 Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.  A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress. To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. Deep down I'm really shallow. The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. Reforms should begin at home and stay there. He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough. There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. Art is the signature of civilizations. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds. The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty. It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got. Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. 
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