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 Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.  Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff. You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. None is so rich as to throw away a friend. Truth is the safest lie. "The good old days." The only good days are ahead. The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty. If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. Pain is the root of knowledge. The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. 
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