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 I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.  There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. Coffee in England is just toasted milk. Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it. To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world. A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. I don't know what humor is. Life only demands from you the strength you possess. For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness. The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master. Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree. When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. - Seneca 
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