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 Women and elephants never forget.  But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it. The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems, and they never come out again. We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. 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. If I should die, think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Many a man never fails because he never tries. My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story. Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way. Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. - Bible A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get. Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. 
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