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 The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.  Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? The dust and silence of the upper shelf. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in. My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears? - Juvenal Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors. Men do not fail, they stop trying. As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die. A good imitation is the most perfect originality. - Voltaire The world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. 
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