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 Poetry is a mug's game.  Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones. Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter. You must lose a fly to catch a trout. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. - Cicero The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. He gives twice who gives quickly. Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. Do as we say, and not as we do. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. Nature's mighty law is change. Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich. The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. 
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