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 A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.  The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation. Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head, smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.' You don't die in the United States, you underachieve. When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood. - Plutarch To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me. 
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