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 Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.  The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. - Epicurus It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist. We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing. The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage. - Terence No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake. The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. Better be happy than wise. I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink. 
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