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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Nothing in business is so valuable as time. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. What was once thought can never be unthought. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads, and pray "Lord, show me where I'm wrong"? An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself. The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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