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 Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."  The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within. Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again-this is the brave and happy life. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. Don't fight forces; use them. A book is the only immortality. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. None think the great unhappy, but the great. The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. To make a mountain of a mole-hill. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. 
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