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 Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.  If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. The present is the living sum-total of the whole past. My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it. The times spat at me. I spit back at the times. Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away; only, at times, its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends. Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. Net - the biggest word in the language of business. He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment. To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies. You really can change the world if you care enough. It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck. There are more old drunkards than old physicians. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. [Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return. - Bible 
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