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 Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.  It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. - Bible The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. A real friend helps us think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, be our finest selves. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn. - Cicero Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be antiracist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell. If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. 
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