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 It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.  If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off. Learn what you are, and be such. - Pindar We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same. Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle. In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope. Let us live, while we are alive! Victory - a matter of staying power. Chance favors those in motion. Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference. Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn. Learn to say 'No'; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. The object of war is to survive it. 
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