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 The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.  A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical. The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. Hate is not a good counselor. Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions. There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon. A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God! Most ball games are lost, not won. Depression is the inability to construct a future. 
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