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Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like? It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots. A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's." There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Happiness lies, first of all, in health. We're half the people, we should be half the Congress. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo. Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.
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