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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. She is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of 'not going'! "Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. Life begins on the other side of despair. Ignorance never settles a question. We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks. When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. Silence is more eloquent than words.
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